protocol7 Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 I've been pondering on this for a while. I still have the stock 30Gb hard drive that shipped with my iBook 800Mhz and I'm wondering if putting in a 32GB SSD would be beneficial? The stock drive is loud enough (it's one of the DeathStars) and the SSD would also cut down power consumption and hopefully heat as well (the area to the left of the trackpad gets quite warm and this is where the drive is). The one real problem seems to be cost. From what I can gather the MLC drives are quite slow in comparison to SLC but the latter are almost triple the price. Would that still be a factor on a ATA-66 bus? To date, my only experience with a SSD was with a Aspire One and it was horribly slow. Maybe a newer 2.5" IDE hard drive would run quieter and draw less power, negating the need for a SSD? The battery is also not working properly. It will run for maybe 15-30mins then cut out. When I plug in the charger the battery indicator counts up to maybe 12% or so then jumps to 100% and stops charging. Looking at the info in coconutBattery it doesn't seem that worn-out. Is there anything I could do to shake this one up a little? Or will I just have to get a replacement one off ebay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajputwarrior Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 except your ibook uses IDE and i don't think SSD comes in IDE, only sata Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protocol7 Posted June 10, 2009 Author Share Posted June 10, 2009 Transcend make IDE SSDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TogaForComfort Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 except your ibook uses IDE and i don't think SSD comes in IDE, only sata edit: protocol7 have proven me wrong on the IDE SSD's As for the Battery: all Apple batteries have a chip in them that reports the charge to the Mac, I would guess either the chip if faulty and giving a dodgy reading and/or most of the cell in the battery have failed. It cuts out as the Battery is incorrectly reporting it still has charge, so you do not get any low battery warning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protocol7 Posted June 10, 2009 Author Share Posted June 10, 2009 Yeah I'm thinking it's an issue with the chip in the battery. I found this article and this entry fits my usage quite well: If you normally leave your Apple portable computer connected to AC power and very rarely use it on battery power you may want to perform this process once a month. Which I haven't done. So I wonder if I can still re-calibrate the battery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phalesafe Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 I've used the 2.5" Transcend and Super Talent SSDs in industrial equipment to much success. You could give it a go, its probably going to be faster than the old death star. BTW replacement battery or have you left that iBook plugged in for most of its life to only have 80ish cycles? :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protocol7 Posted June 10, 2009 Author Share Posted June 10, 2009 (edited) Nah it's the original battery :). It's just spent a lot of it's time on AC. But when I do want to take it out with me, I now have to bring the AC adapter which is a bit of a pain. That's why I'm looking into either fixing it or replacing it. With so few cycles I feel there surely must be some life left in it. What type SSDs have you used? MLC or SLC? I looked up the SSD used in the Aspire One. It's this Intel one and the r/w times looks as horrible as I remember. The Transcend MLC drive has better times: Intel Read: 38MB/s Transcend Read: 74MB/s (up to) Intel Write: 10MB/s Transcend Write: 45MB/s (up to) Can't find any online specs to show the times for the stock 30GB drive. Edited June 10, 2009 by protocol7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phalesafe Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Nah it's the original battery :). It's just spent a lot of it's time on AC. But when I do want to take it out with me, I now have to bring the AC adapter which is a bit of a pain. That's why I'm looking into either fixing it or replacing it. With so few cycles I feel there surely must be some life left in it.What type SSDs have you used? MLC or SLC? MLC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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