Poor Man's SSD - CF to PATA in a Pismo?

i picked pismo , i'm sort of falling in love thing despite having macbook run's circles around in terms of performance. design, ergonomics, keyboard, top notch.

1 thing i've noticed hard drive whiny, i'm guessing it's on it's way out possibly.

replacing hdd option used one's limited in life , new ones hard justify cost for. realizing don't need space i'll using idea of 16gb cf card boot drive seems tempting. adapter + decent speed cf card under $50.

done it? adapter did use? speed cf card? how did compare hard drive?

 

you shouldn't have problems doing that. austin leeds of low end mac did in old clamshell ibook.

5 part article wrote, 5 parts can found on index page below.

http://lowendmac.com/ed/leeds/index.html

part 2 shows adapter , cf card used, think part 4 has speed tests, , part 5 talks difference between types of cf cards.

has started new project of putting ssd in pismo, along other upgrades.

http://lowendmac.com/ed/leeds/11al/pismo-resurrection-1.html

 

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