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64GB KingSpec 2.5" PATA/IDE SSD Solid State Disk (MLC Flash) SM2235 Controller by KingSpec


64GB KingSpec 2.5
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Key Features

  • 64GB SSD Solid State Disk
  • 2.5" PATA/IDE standard
  • Read speed up to 76MB/sec
  • Write speed up to 67MB/sec
  • 44-pin IDE interface
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Details
64GB 2.5" SSD Solid State Disk from KingSpec with PATA/IDE interface. Built using MLC Flash chips, with read speeds up to 76MB/sec and write speeds up to 67MB/sec.

Computer connection is the IDE 44-pin interface, making this SSD compatible with notebook and netbook computers using 2.5" IDE hard drives.

This IDE/PATA SSD is enclosed in a strong steel case for added durability and reliability.

This SSD is pre-tested in the following systems but is also suitable for use in many other systems. We recommend checking with the manufacturer prior to purchase:

IBM: ThinkPad T/42/T43/T20/T40
DELL: Inspiron 8600, Inspiron 8200, Inspiron 5160, Inspiron 600m
Fujitsu: U1010, U2010, U810, U820, P1620
Specifications
CAPACITY 64GB
INTERFACE TYPE IDE/PATA - 44 pin interface
FORM FACTOR 2.5"
DEVICE TYPE SSD Solid State Disk
DATA TRANSFER RATES Read speed up to 76MB/sec
Write speed up to 67MB/sec
FLASH STORAGE DETAILS MLC NAND Flash chips
OPERATING TEMPERATURE Operating Temperature -20~85ºC
Non-operating Temperature -45~85ºC
MTBF 1,000,000 hours
SHOCK RESISTANCE 2,000G (@0.3ms half sine wave)
SPECIAL FEATURES Supports BCH ECC 8bits or 15bits in 512 bytes
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS IDE 44-pin interface
DIMENSIONS 100.2 x 69.8 x 9.5 mm
WEIGHT 70g
PACKAGING Retail packaging
WARRANTY 2 years warranty
User Reviews
  • 6 reviews
  • 2 reviews
  • 1 review
Kevin Phair
Good performance let down by poor design
March 20th 2012 Verified user
Drive works fine but the design of the casing leaves hardly any room around the connector and I had to shave some plastic off the internal connector in my laptop to get the drive to fit! As the casing is aluminium, modding the laptop seemed the easiest solution.
Review of 64GB KingSpec 2.5" PATA/IDE SSD Solid State Disk (MLC Flash) SM2235 Controller
Miklos Papp
Perfect
March 5th 2012 Verified user
I bought this SSD after a mechanical failure on my old hard drive. After installing the new SSD from MemoryC, my notebook runs perfectly.
Review of 64GB KingSpec 2.5" PATA/IDE SSD Solid State Disk (MLC Flash) SM2235 Controller
Joachim Feise
Works perfect in my old Sony Vaio
February 22nd 2012 Verified user
I replaced the existing 60GB disk in my old Vaio laptop with this SSD.
It works perfectly, and keeps the laptop much cooler.
Review of 64GB KingSpec 2.5" PATA/IDE SSD Solid State Disk (MLC Flash) SM2235 Controller
Nikolaos Harmantas
A total waste of money
December 26th 2011 Verified user
DO NOT BUY KINGSPEC PATA SSD. On an HP-Compaq NX7010 this product is useless. First of all it does not fit in the HDD compartment of the laptop. I had to make modifications. Second and WORST: The machine suffers from constant lockups that keep it frozen for 5-10 sec. When it unfreezes it is only a question of time when the next freeze will be. Made a clean install of winXP - same situation. Transferred the installation as it was to an Intel G2 40Gb SATA SSD that i installed in one CD-ROM bay HDD Caddy bought from China online retailer. It works like a charm ! Put back the 320GB Western Digital in the HDD bay and everything is beautiful. It is not WinXP to blame, it is the Kingspec drive. Now the Kingspec SSD is in one external USB case - What a waste! With 139 EUROS that kingspec cost me, i could have bought terrabytes of external storage.
Review of 64GB KingSpec 2.5" PATA/IDE SSD Solid State Disk (MLC Flash) SM2235 Controller
Yagos Gaganakis
Perfect
November 15th 2011 Verified user
Worked as expected!
Review of 64GB KingSpec 2.5" PATA/IDE SSD Solid State Disk (MLC Flash) SM2235 Controller
Dirk Meier
works very well
August 1st 2011 Verified user
I purchased one 64GB KingSpec 2.5" PATA/IDE SSD to replace the 64GB hard disk in my R51 IBM Thinkpad. I removed the hard disk and inserted the SSD without any problems. It turned out that the small jumper is important to have the SSD recognized by the BIOS and for proper booting. I installed Ubuntu 11.04 on the SSD using an installation CD which I created on a different PC. I find that this SSD works very well. Booting, rebooting, suspend, is much faster than with hard disk.
Review of 64GB KingSpec 2.5" PATA/IDE SSD Solid State Disk (MLC Flash) SM2235 Controller
Martin Rogers
New lease of life for old laptop
January 26th 2011 Verified user
I have an old Precision M60 laptop, and installing this (with Win7) has made a big difference to it. 6 year old laptop loads Excel in under 3 seconds. Make sure however that your older laptop has a decent HDD controller, as some of them are cheaper, slower ones to match the slow HDD that was often installed.
Review of 64GB KingSpec 2.5" PATA/IDE SSD Solid State Disk (MLC Flash) SM2235 Controller
Anonymous
its fast ... super fast
December 12th 2010
The speed rate of 76MB/s appears to indicate the minimal value.
On proper hardware, benchmark yields about 100MB/s and very low access time ~ 0.5ms.
In a real life environment, Dell Latitude class for example, makes boot time from cold to ready desktop in sub 10 seconds!
Application start, directory listings, image thumbnailing - virtually instant - exactly as expected.
Bear in mind though, low-end laptops (including most Sony VAIO) have poor, sluggish IDE controllers, 20...25MB/s at best, that's why you may not see much improvements on performance side, shame Sony.
Wish they were priced closer the SATA SSD, but ironically IDE SSD drives are made of the very same SATA components extra SATA <-> IDE conntroller bridge which unavoidably limits top speed to 133MB/s and ads to the cost.
Still, I'd not trade my Dell Precision M20, M60 with IDE bus for some modern SATA cheappy laptop. With these IDE-SSD drives your old good machine will get a rocket boost and would deserve another few years of enjoyable life ;)
Review of 64GB KingSpec 2.5" PATA/IDE SSD Solid State Disk (MLC Flash) SM2235 Controller
Richard Stephens
ok, but not much faster
November 15th 2010 Verified user
I was hoping for the type of speed boost you see when loading an SATA II SSD on a netbook - instant boot times and application launches. But this is old-fashioned PATA, not SATA, so there is no really discernible increase in speed. It is expensive, but it has meant that my old Sony VAIO VGN-S1XP now has a hard disk that cannot break if I drop it, and I have replaced the old one which was 6 years old and potentially unreliable. The other advantage is that it generates less heat, so there is less of the whining fan, plus it has done something to increase battery life.

So - it's ok if you want the advantages I have just mentioned, but it is expensive. It has brought some new life to an old and much-loved gadget, and it is at least cheaper than a new VAIO!
Review of 64GB KingSpec 2.5" PATA/IDE SSD Solid State Disk (MLC Flash) SM2235 Controller
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