The IDE drives in all PowerPC macs are at least 20 years old if they weren't replaced at some point. I don't really want to wait for mine to die before replacing it and having to redownload everything and copy everything back over to it over my slow internet and terrible USB hard drive. I was putting this upgrade off for the past two years because I thought the price I had to pay for an M.2 SATA drive when I bought a driveless macbook air on ebay was ridiculous and was waiting for the prices to go down further so I could grab one for a similar price to what my cheap 2.5" SATA drives. Then the entire AI data center thing happens and now SSDs are super overpriced, those same 20 dollar SSDs I normally throw in old computers are now closer to 50 dollars and the card form factor ones I thought were overpriced like mSATA and M.2 are even more pricey.
Recently, my iBook's drive has been seeming more sluggish than normal and boot times are going up so I've been looking into what options I have left that wont cost me more than just buying a better PowerPC mac with a working drive. When searching I noticed there are multiple sellers on eBay and amazon that sell 128gb and 64gb IDE "SSDs" that are marketed with real NAND flash companies and are supposedly "new."
Has anyone ever used one of these? What's actually inside of them? Is it an SD card, a USB drive, or an actual SSD adapted to IDE?
Recently, my iBook's drive has been seeming more sluggish than normal and boot times are going up so I've been looking into what options I have left that wont cost me more than just buying a better PowerPC mac with a working drive. When searching I noticed there are multiple sellers on eBay and amazon that sell 128gb and 64gb IDE "SSDs" that are marketed with real NAND flash companies and are supposedly "new."
Has anyone ever used one of these? What's actually inside of them? Is it an SD card, a USB drive, or an actual SSD adapted to IDE?
