retro fitted MPC4000 with Solid State Hard Drive

feline1 wrote:good thread!

So basically this guy used a 2½" SSD drive, with a 2½ > 3½ adaptor, and a S-ATA to P-ATA (IDE) adaptor, and it all fitted inside!

I suspect it is the Intel strongarm CPU that is the limiting speed factor, to be honest!

yes, that is exactly what this guy did. and i agree 100% on the strong-arm being the weak link, but that just gives me the chance to spend time with the impatient asian lady who lives inside the machine.

many you should see the secret OS 1.72, where she was naked.

not another fallen starlet! first kim kardashian, now the impatient lady in my machine?! what's next for her, keeping up with the mp4Kardashians?

Apologies for bumping this up, but I was hoping for a follow up on the SATA SSD installation.

Has it been reliable and a good solution?

It looks like IDE drives are going to disappear so a solution using a SATA drive would be good to keep the 4k going into the future, and the SSD drives use way less current than a 3.5 inch rotating drive making for a lighter load on the power supply (and hopefully longer life).

so far, so good. the new, quieter fan was a good move too.

Has anyone else successfully installed an SSD in the 4K?

The price of these drives has dropped through the floor recently, so I may look at trying to install one myself.

Any additional tips and advice would be a bonus.

How about you read the thread? Then you'll find out.

How about you pipe the **** down if you've got nothing to add.

The tiny minority of people who have modded their 4K to work with an SSD are using different methods. It'd be nice to add to this thread as it only contains one example.

The MPC4000 has a 3½ inch drive bay, for a old IDE ("Parallel ATA", PATA) type hard drive. The max capacity of drive the MPC4000 OS can read is 128GB (i.e. it ignores the extra space on anything bigger).

Pretty much any SSD drive you find will be 2½" or even 1½" in size, and will have a Serial ATA (SATA) type connection.

To connect one of these to the MPC4000, you will therefore need to get a suitable 3½" adapator mounting bracket, and a PATA > SATA adaptor for the connection too. These are readily available to buy from the same places you will buy your drive.

Piece of piss. There are no "other methods" Now man up and get on with it.

Feline, a pleasure to see you taking the piss as always.

for those who enjoy quotes from 2 years ago:

1."SATA to PATA/IDE Hard Drive Interface Adapter"
$4.45, Sold by: HDE

2."Vantec NexStar 3 NST-360U2-BL 3.5-Inch IDE to USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure
Electronics; $32.99, Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC

3. "SILVERSTONE SDP08 3.5 to 2 X 2.5-Inch Bay Converter"
Electronics; $7.99, Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC

4. "Crucial Technology 64 GB M225 Series Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT64M225" Electronics; $197.59, Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC

Total for this Order: $265.91

Dude, the prices for those components for 2 years ago is about as relevent to their prices today as it is to the cost of buying a mobile phone in 1982.

I know! Still, the parts numbers may still be relevant, so that's a something.

Good Bump. I may think about it since the price of that drive has fallen.
I just looked on Amazon and it says the 64 gig is $99 and a 128 gig is only a little more.
Cheers,
Ian

Ian Canefire wrote:Good Bump. I may think about it since the price of that drive has fallen.
I just looked on Amazon and it says the 64 gig is $99 and a 128 gig is only a little more.
Cheers,
Ian

Also, can't hurt to replace the old noisy fan with a new one while you're in there.

feline1 wrote:Piece of piss.

Like changing a fan? As the only person who has ever come close to killing themselves carrying out a minor modification you should be careful what you say!

feline1 wrote:There are no "other methods"

Someone on here had bypassed the adapter altogether by getting an IDE SSD, which is why I bumped the thread to get any extra information. This is not my area of expertise, like public relations isn't yours. Nice one anyway.