Not into a Libretto, but I have into my mother-in-law's old Dell Latitude D430 (12"). The HDD was noisy, hot and slow. I found a very affordable Kingspec 32GB SSD with the ZIF-40 connector. I understand that the Libretto U100 has a 50p "CF" interface. Sounds to me like you could just stick in a CF-card. Failing that, there are ZIF-40 to Toshiba 50p adapters available for a few EUR/USD that would let you use one of the ZIF-40 drives in your system.

Thanks for that. I didn't know you could get ZIF to CF adapters, I think that might be just what I need. However I have also seen adapters for CF card-Toshiba 50 pin interface which confused me a little as I thought the 50 pin interface was the same as compact flash?? I guess it could just be for the mounting screws and master/slave jumper.

As the U100 is apparently a nightmare to strip down and replace the HDD (as opposed to the earlier ones where it's 2 screws and the HDD slides out the side...) I was nervous about using a CF card that might well wear out before too long and wanted to use a "proper" SSD. The drive that's in there now is certainly dreadfully slow, I wonder if the 1gb RAM upgrade will help at all. Sadly that's the maximum it supports as far as I can gather. Not as much of a "modding" community with the U100s as with the older Librettos.

Apparently one can use an mSATA SSD with an mSATA-ZIF adapter and then a ZIF-50pin adapter. Just so happens I have a spare 128gb mSATA SSD lying around so that'll be my next project after the 1gb stick arrives 😁

I've turned visual effects off and it's actually running along quite nicely now, typing on it right now... with 1gb and an SSD it should be a nice usable machine today and I might even try to get Windows 10 running on it if I'm feeling really adventurous. Fell quite lucky on this, got it pretty cheap and the battery life is brilliant!

britain4,

Did you ever install the SSD on your U100?

If so, how difficult was it to disassemble U100 to install?

And how much improvement did you see after installing SSD?

I'm thinking to install a KingSpec 128GB SSD in my U105.

Thanks.

ArchiMark wrote on 2020-10-22, 16:05:

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britain4,

Did you ever install the SSD on your U100?

If so, how difficult was it to disassemble U100 to install?

And how much improvement did you see after installing SSD?

I'm thinking to install a KingSpec 128GB SSD in my U105.

Thanks.

I may be a tad late with this reply 😁

Just 3 years after I originally wanted to do it (!), I've installed a CF card into it using a CF-50 pin adapter, never found a PATA SSD or got a SATA adapter working. It's a big improvement over the old slow HDD, not as fast as a proper SSD.

Disassembly isn't too difficult but it is a bit tedious - just keep track of where all the screws go

Much belated thanks for your input.

Unfortunately, didn't see your response until now.

😀

No problem at all! Did you ever sort anything out for yours?

Still got mine, still used occasionally and working well!