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title: "32GB 2.5 inch PATA/IDE SSD, MLC Flash Internal Solid State Drive for Old Laptop Desktop PC Upgrade"
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# 65MB/s max read speed, fast for vintage tech PATA 44Pin interface, legacy laptop compatible 5-year warranty, long-term reliability 32GB 2.5 inch PATA/IDE SSD, MLC Flash Internal Solid State Drive for Old Laptop Desktop PC Upgrade

**Brand:** kingspec
**Price:** ฿5279
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Upgrade your vintage rig — fast, reliable, and built to last!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** 32GB 2.5 inch PATA/IDE SSD, MLC Flash Internal Solid State Drive for Old Laptop Desktop PC Upgrade by kingspec
- **How much does it cost?** ฿5279 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.th](https://www.desertcart.co.th/products/10861573-32gb-2-5-inch-pata-ide-ssd-mlc-flash-internal)

## Best For

- kingspec enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted kingspec brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Compact & Durable:** Slim 2.5-inch form factor with 2 million hours MTBF and robust vibration/drop resistance for dependable daily use.
- • **Legacy Laptop Revival:** Breathe new life into your classic PATA/IDE machines with seamless SSD upgrade compatibility.
- • **Speed Meets Stability:** Experience up to 65MB/s read and 40MB/s write speeds backed by advanced wear-leveling and error correction.
- • **Plug & Play Confidence:** Immediate BIOS recognition and easy installation—no driver headaches, just instant performance boosts.
- • **Future-Proof Your Old Tech:** Supported by a 5-year warranty and multiple capacity options, ensuring your vintage gear stays relevant longer.

## Overview

The KingSpec 32GB 2.5-inch PATA/IDE SSD is a specialized solid-state drive designed to upgrade older laptops and desktops with PATA interfaces. Featuring MLC NAND flash, it delivers up to 65MB/s read and 40MB/s write speeds, enhanced by wear-leveling and error correction technologies. Its compact form factor fits legacy drive bays perfectly, offering a silent, durable, and significantly faster alternative to traditional HDDs. Backed by a 5-year warranty, this SSD revitalizes aging hardware, making it ideal for professionals maintaining vintage systems without sacrificing reliability or performance.

## Description

Product Specification: Storage Capacity: 32GB/64GB/128GB/256GB NAND Flash: MLC Sequential Read Speed: up to 65MB/s Sequential Write Speed: up to 40MB/s TBW: 90TB 4K Random Read Speed: 3120 IOPS Max 4K Random Write Speed: 472 IOPS Max Work Temperature: 0～+75℃ Storage Temperature: -40～+85℃ Environment Humidity: 5-95% RH non-condensing Drop Test: 1500G/0.5ms Vibration Test: 80Hz-2000Hz/20G Input Voltage: DC5V±5% Power: 1.75W (max) Size: 100x69.8x9.6mm MTBF: 2 million hours Warranty: 5-year limited warranty Package List: 1 x 2.5” PATA SSD 1 x User Manual

Review: Excellent excuse for upgrading my old Acer TravelMate 3002WTCi - For most of this "review", I'm going to specifically concentrate on the installation of the KingSpec SSD to my [relatively] ancient Acer "ultra-light" laptop. But part of this review is *definitely* going to be generally useful to anyone contemplating upgrading an older PATA based machine (including, lol, probably at least one reviewer who reported performance problems with his XP install after a few months had passed). I figure that almost anyone even thinking about doing something like this is probably pretty technically adept already, so my primary purpose here is less in recommending the drive itself (and, I do recommend it) than to detail specific details of my own machine upgrade. And to include some generally useful procedures (new "tricks" whoo-hoo) for doing this sort of upgrade. ...if you weren't a relatively experienced DIY'er, you probably wouldn't be bothering with something like this. -------------------------------- SSD BRIEF REVIEW: As for the Kingspec SSD itself? - Well, it's a good price for a relatively rare beast. PATA SSD's aren't ever going to be all that common ...it was just luck of the draw that I took this over the Transcend version I was also looking at. To cut to the quick, I'd buy another Kingspec in a heartbeat, and I have no problem in recommending it. (I have five other machines with SATA SSD's btw, so I'm not exactly a noob' regarding their care and feeding.) -------------------------------- SSD DETAILS: I had no dimensional fitment issues: _1. the SSD was *exactly* the same size in every dimension as the OEM Seagate Momentus 4200.2 (Mod. No. ST960821A) I pulled out of the drive tray _2. the SSD bolted to the drive bay as expected _3. the tray assembly subsequently slid into the laptop HDD drive bay perfectly _4. the SSD pins plugged into the internal PATA connector smoothly _5. there were no clearance issues whatsoever I had no BIOS-related issues: the Kingspec was immediately picked up by the [old] Acer BIOS. (The drive jumper came set to the typical "master" setting that a boot PATA drive should be set to ...it's been awhile since I've seen one of those lol.) I have had no performance issues for the few days it's been running (and I will follow-up if I ever do) ...I've observed the performance is significantly better than the Momentus it replaced (in W7 WEI, the SSD has a 5.9 rating ...so it's easily the fastest HW component in the little Acer lol ...uh, there's no "WEI" in XP, so all I can say is that the OS boots faster, the laptop resumes from hibernation - and sleep mode - WAY faster, and applications and the like load way, way faster). Battery life seems the same (although at this point, both the batteries on the Acer are - unsurprisingly- in dire need of replacement); I just don't have a good baseline of comparison here though, so YMMV. -------------------------------- BACKGROUND: I purchased a 3002WTCi [ultra-light] as an onsite laptop in late summer 2007 ...it was a faithful and invaluable asset for onsite work (I'm a sys admin with 30 plus years experience) for over 3 years. After that, it did yeoman duty for another couple of years plus as a "bedtime companion", to catch up on the news and blogs late nights - I have minor insomnia - before I finally bought a 'droid Nexus tablet. The little Acer has pretty much sat on a shelf since then. The Acer originally came with a 64GB Seagate HDD that was partitioned into two 30GB logical drives ...one partition was still empty, and the boot partition was about 75% used with XP and MS Office and the various software utilities and files I found it useful to carry with me to onsite locations. So I was pretty sure the 64GB of the Kingspec wasn't going to pose any capacity limitation issues. I'd thought about upgrading it with an SSD for several years, but it was hard justifying the expense (especially when I started to use it less). Plus, the techie community consensus seemed to be that the performance of a PATA SSD wasn't exactly all that much of an upgrade. (And finding PATA SSD's was no piece of cake a few years back, either.) Regardless, that was then, and now is now, and I've my own SSD experiences to draw upon ...and at least as far as price (and aforementioned capacity), the Kingspec at 64GB wasn't going to be much of a budgetary hardship. -------------------------------- OS UPGRADE: I decided that even though there's absolutely no driver support for Windows 7 for the little Acer (which has an old-school Intel 915GM graphics engine, and various other ancient and non-W7-supported HW bits and pieces ...you're not going to find W7 support for the 3002WTCi no matter how good your mad googling skillz are lol), it was still worth it to me to try a fresh W7 install, just to avoid the lack of support for TRIM in XP ...especially as TRIM support is kind of vital for an SSD, for longevity and performance, making a W7 attempt was "worth a shot". I also didn't want to deal with alignment issues with XP on an SSD either (there's a thread at oczforum.com - google "How to Align OCZ SSD in XP using USB - SATA and Vista recovery disk" - that explains the procedure pretty thoroughly). Sooo ...since W7 has TRIM support built-in, I decide a fresh install "just to see" would be worth the little additional effort involved in a new W7 install, even if I eventually decided I'd have to undo it all, and go with XP (I didn't really have any vital and/or personal files to worry about - they'd long since been copied to network storage - so there wasn't even a reason to clone the original drive: I just pulled the old HDD, and set it aside). Plus, I had the luxury of a spare W7-Home Premium license that I purchased years ago that I've never used: like I said, "...worth a shot." -------------------------------- OS INSTALL: The 3002WTCi is an ultra-light (by the old definition); it didn't have an internal optical drive to boot the W7 DVD setup disc from. So I googled around a bit, and found (and followed) instructions by Steve Tyler at instructables.com - google "Install Windows 7 without USB or DVD without upgrading!" - for doing a self-booting SSD install. Basically you copy the \boot and \sources folder and the "boot" file from the W7 DVD to the root of your freshly NTFS formatted SSD using a working PC, and use the Windows 7 diskpart utility to make the SSD active ...then, install the SSD to your laptop, and at first boot the process goes right into the familiar Windows 7 setup screen. I had absolutely no issues whatsoever with the setup portion of W7 on the little Acer. After a couple of the typical W7 setup process restarts, I had a working OS. Cool. NOTE: My W7 license was an upgrade license ...and the setup wouldn't accept the [entirely legal, as the laptop came with XP Pro] upgrade key because it was a "new fresh install" which was "not supported by the upgrade license". (The help menu suggested re-installing an earlier version of Windows, and then re-installing W7: LOLOL. *That* wasn't going to happen!) So I skipped past the license key entry screen (which turns a new install into a 30-day trial), and went looking for an alternative solution. To get around that problem [error code 0xC004F061], I found instructions by Kapil Arya at thewindowsclub.com (google "FIX : Error 0xC004F061, Unable To Use Product Key For Clean Install") that detailed changing a DWORD key setting in the Registry (change the value of HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/MediaBootInstall from the default value of "1" to a "0") and then running the command "slmgr /rearm" in an elevated prompt command ...which fixed the issue. -------------------------------- POST INSTALL DRIVER ISSUES: After the Windows Setup process was finally complete, I booted into an 800x600 resolution display (heck: at least it was better than 640x480), and was able to change that to 1024x768 using the default W7 VGA driver. The trackpad worked as far as basic functionality. The keyboard worked just fine. The wired network port didn't report any errors (thank you Broadcom). The USB ports worked (good thing, too). Gratifyingly enough, the laptop was more than marginally functional at first boot. All the more specialized HW bits were down. No internal wireless (this was *not* a huge issue AFAIWC, since I had stopped using the internal wireless years ago, as it simply couldn't connect to any modern-era, n-capable routers ...it was great with the old Linksys WRT54G, but c'mon lol). No sound card (I'm not sure there is sound yet, though the error is gone ...just haven't tested it). UPDATE (06/2014): I got the internal network card to work after all (it was me, not it lol). But - more serious - the stock W7 VGA driver didn't support the 1280x768 native resolution of the little Acer (a Very Big Deal that would have killed continuing using W7 for me). To cut to the chase: most driver related issues were fixable, by the simple expedient of installing the original XP drivers, in compatibility mode. (Find the particular XP era, driver setup executable, and right click, choose Properties, click the Compatibility tab, and check-mark "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" (choose XP) and you're good. At least in the case of the little Acer, XP drivers haven't appeared to cause any deal-killer problems.) The only caveat to installing XP drivers in compatibility mode is that the older Intel graphics driver - while supporting the resolution just fine - isn't, ever, going to win any speed contests. Plus, the Intel 915GM chipset simply does *not* support W7 Aero functions at all at the hardware level (which is not the fault of the driver itself); it's old, and that's just the way it is. There's no work-around. Which leads to: I'd suggest (highly!recommend!) that you set the graphics properties to "Classic Windows" and change the Advanced Options to "Performance" ...because with those settings, the display performance is at least perfectly acceptable for mundane Internet related purposes like browsing and emails. The WEI 1.0 rating of the graphics card is the worst rating (of any piece of hardware) I've ever seen. You're not going to do any gaming beyond solitaire with this, lol. But its performance *is* fine for almost anything else. -------------------------------- MISC. OBSERVATIONS: I'd do this again in a minute. It was well worth the $70 to have a reasonably quick "spare" laptop (whose entire history I am intimately familiar with). The Acer is much, much quicker in common usage with W7 on the SSD. Much. Quicker. (This observation seems to contrast with other reviewers who stayed with XP installs, and reported lesser gains. While the little Acer is [still] not a speed demon due to the use of an SSD, it is transparently and obviously faster ...which was also the case when we updated my wife's older Lenovo X-series laptop. So if you have a Windows 7 license, you might want to try upgrading even older, non-supported hardware - using XP compatibility mode for drivers - before you stay with XP. Just sayin' - and YMMV - but W7 worked for me.) ...I will follow-up in a few months if I have any additional observations. If the SSD has any issues at all, I'll also do a follow-up. -------------------------------- UPDATE (06/2014): As stated above, the internal network card is, actually, working. (Basically, I should have been paying closer attention during the post-install setup lol.) ...and I've found the little laptop useful enough to have installed an old Office 2010 license to it (which install demonstrated that some hardware performance issues aren't mitigated by the faster SSD: the 2010 install took a couple of *hours* lol ...I've upgraded to Office 2013 subscription for the rest of my workstations, and as the little Acer has proven to be - again - useful, I decided it needed a proper email app' ...and I've long since been an Office Outlook "fanboy" lol). ...still no real issues. It's not a multi-tasking warrior (the Acer's 2GB of RAM is adequate for single-tasking), but it's proven pretty do-able for keeping a few IE tabs open. (I open Outlook "as needed", and close it afterwards.)
Review: Great performance upgrade for a 2005 Compaq Presario M2000 - My Windows XP, 2005 Compaq Presario M2000 notebook was slow and frustrating with its constantly grinding-away 40GB 5400 RPM hard drive (IDE/ATA). Even with a 1.5GHz Intel Celeron CPU and 500MB of RAM running XP, it felt almost unusable, even with anti-virus off, System Restore off, and a crazy-fast WiFi internet connection. But instead of junking the Compaq, I installed this KingSpec 32GB SSD, and the results so far after a few days have been AMAZING. I first cloned the Windows XP hard drive to the SSD using Apricorn's cloning kit which comes with cloning software (PC and Mac) and a very nice external drive enclosure. The cloning process took maybe 15 minutes over USB 2.0. Then I put the KingSpec SSD into the Compaq and booted no problem. But then I noticed the right click on trackpad didn't work, and had trouble booting, getting stuck at the "Compaq" welcome. So, recloned the HDD to the SSD after turning off System Restore, and the second clone went much faster, and everything works PERFECTLY not. For best results, I recommend you turn off your Windows XP "System Restore" feature, which erases all previous versions of XP that are indexed on your HDD, although I'm not sure if that was the initial problem. Anyway, the Apricorn cloned my NTFS file format XP over to the KingSpec SSD, and so far, I'm loving the performance improvement. Instead of booting in a minute, it boots in like 30 seconds. Internet Explorer and Firefox open in seconds instead of getting bogged down with that hourglass, and surfing the web is as effortless now as having a 2012 PC. Using the software uninstall feature in Control Panel of XP used to take a long time to populate the list of programs, but now takes less than 30 seconds. Installing TurboTax and booting it must be twice as fast now, and there's no more constantly-grinding HDD working itself to death, just silent, fast operation. I don't know how it works with anti-virus programs running in the background, as the Compaq was so slow with them running, I turned them off or uninstalled them, and am now only doing periodic scans. I also have System Restore off, like before. Overall, for $50, on a light-duty old PC, this was totally worth the expense. I really love it, and highly recommend both this KingSpec SSD and Apricorn's cloning kit. Plus, with Apricorn and this SSD installed, you can do a clone to your old HDD in the supplied internal enclosure. XP won't boot from an external USB drive, but you can save the old cloned HDD as a non-bootable backup.

## Features

- Interface: PATA 44Pin, ATA/APAI-7 (133MBps); Max Read / Write Speed: 65MB/s, 40MB/s
- Stable & Reliable: Support static and dynamic wear-leveling algorithms, garbage collection/free space/LDPC etc.
- Capacity: 32GB/64GB/128GB/256GB, choose suitable item according to your requirement.
- Widely Application: Great for Thinkpad, Dell, Toshiba and others. Please check it carefully before purchasing.
- What’s You’ll Get: You will get a 2.5” PATA SSD and 5-year warranty. Please contact us timely while you have any questions.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B008RVN97A |
| Best Sellers Rank | #202 in Internal Solid State Drives |
| Brand | KingSpec |
| Color | As per images |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (548) |
| Date First Available | August 2, 2012 |
| Flash Memory Size | 32 GB |
| Hard Drive | 32 GB Solid State Drive |
| Hard Drive Interface | Solid State |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 5.98 x 4.41 x 0.91 inches |
| Item Weight | 3.52 ounces |
| Item model number | KSD-PA25.6-032MS |
| Manufacturer | KingSpec |
| Product Dimensions | 5.98 x 4.41 x 0.91 inches |
| Series | KSD-PA25.6-032MS |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** KingSpec
- **Color:** As per images
- **Compatible Devices:** Laptop
- **Connectivity Technology:** PATA
- **Digital Storage Capacity:** 32 GB
- **Hard Disk Description:** Solid State Drive
- **Hard Disk Form Factor:** 2.5 Inches
- **Hard Disk Interface:** Solid State
- **Installation Type:** Internal Hard Drive
- **Special Feature:** Native Command Queuing

## Images

![32GB 2.5 inch PATA/IDE SSD, MLC Flash Internal Solid State Drive for Old Laptop Desktop PC Upgrade - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51AHRUJzh2L.jpg)

## Questions & Answers

**Q: Does this drive support TRIM?**
A: Your pata motherboard bios doesn't support trim, neither does the pata protocol, neither does anything Windows xp or earlier (Vista may also not support it).

**Q: Would this drive work with the Yamaha AW4416 Multitrack Recorder? its the same interface and size although not SSD but HDD. Any thoughts?**
A: I put this drive in an old laptop that needed PATA and it's working quite well - very reliable and noticeably faster. The interface is fine - it's pure PATA / IDE. The size may be an issue. While it's supposed to be an exact physical replacement for a traditional 2.5" PATA/IDE drive, they were a little sloppy controlling the exact size. It's a tiny bit bigger than it should be. This meant that I could not simply bolt it into the stainless steel carrier and plug it in. I had to toss the nice carrier and just plug it into the interface, put a small piece of thin sponge sheet on top and then the cover plate. For me, it's fine. You might not be so lucky depending on how Yamaha physically mounts the drive inside.

**Q: Does this come with software and a cable to clone the current computer?**
A: Mine didn't have either. Free software is available to clone drives but you'll need an additional  SATA cable and available SATA power connection to connect the drive.

**Q: The HP Mini says 40 pin interface this drive says 44 pin interface will it be compatible with the 40pin?**
A: PATA standard uses 40 pins for communication. A device with 44 pins has 4 extra pins that act as "switches" to tell the device that it is a master, slave, cable select or other. On a laptop with one drive, no switches are usually needed. This drive should work if your laptop uses PATA (IDE) look it up on wikipedia for a picture of the pins. What I have run into with these drives is they are a bit thicker than a normal spinning HDD, maybe 1.5mm. Just don't force it. The older white version was a tad thinner but the new silver ones are the only ones I can find now. The current technology is SATA which is much faster and does not have the 40 pins or "switches" it resembles a USB or HDMI connector (IT'S NOT EITHER SO DONT TRY), you just plug and go.good luck and keep the packaging.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent excuse for upgrading my old Acer TravelMate 3002WTCi
*by B***9 on May 17, 2014*

For most of this "review", I'm going to specifically concentrate on the installation of the KingSpec SSD to my [relatively] ancient Acer "ultra-light" laptop. But part of this review is *definitely* going to be generally useful to anyone contemplating upgrading an older PATA based machine (including, lol, probably at least one reviewer who reported performance problems with his XP install after a few months had passed). I figure that almost anyone even thinking about doing something like this is probably pretty technically adept already, so my primary purpose here is less in recommending the drive itself (and, I do recommend it) than to detail specific details of my own machine upgrade. And to include some generally useful procedures (new "tricks" whoo-hoo) for doing this sort of upgrade. ...if you weren't a relatively experienced DIY'er, you probably wouldn't be bothering with something like this. -------------------------------- SSD BRIEF REVIEW: As for the Kingspec SSD itself? - Well, it's a good price for a relatively rare beast. PATA SSD's aren't ever going to be all that common ...it was just luck of the draw that I took this over the Transcend version I was also looking at. To cut to the quick, I'd buy another Kingspec in a heartbeat, and I have no problem in recommending it. (I have five other machines with SATA SSD's btw, so I'm not exactly a noob' regarding their care and feeding.) -------------------------------- SSD DETAILS: I had no dimensional fitment issues: _1. the SSD was *exactly* the same size in every dimension as the OEM Seagate Momentus 4200.2 (Mod. No. ST960821A) I pulled out of the drive tray _2. the SSD bolted to the drive bay as expected _3. the tray assembly subsequently slid into the laptop HDD drive bay perfectly _4. the SSD pins plugged into the internal PATA connector smoothly _5. there were no clearance issues whatsoever I had no BIOS-related issues: the Kingspec was immediately picked up by the [old] Acer BIOS. (The drive jumper came set to the typical "master" setting that a boot PATA drive should be set to ...it's been awhile since I've seen one of those lol.) I have had no performance issues for the few days it's been running (and I will follow-up if I ever do) ...I've observed the performance is significantly better than the Momentus it replaced (in W7 WEI, the SSD has a 5.9 rating ...so it's easily the fastest HW component in the little Acer lol ...uh, there's no "WEI" in XP, so all I can say is that the OS boots faster, the laptop resumes from hibernation - and sleep mode - WAY faster, and applications and the like load way, way faster). Battery life seems the same (although at this point, both the batteries on the Acer are - unsurprisingly- in dire need of replacement); I just don't have a good baseline of comparison here though, so YMMV. -------------------------------- BACKGROUND: I purchased a 3002WTCi [ultra-light] as an onsite laptop in late summer 2007 ...it was a faithful and invaluable asset for onsite work (I'm a sys admin with 30 plus years experience) for over 3 years. After that, it did yeoman duty for another couple of years plus as a "bedtime companion", to catch up on the news and blogs late nights - I have minor insomnia - before I finally bought a 'droid Nexus tablet. The little Acer has pretty much sat on a shelf since then. The Acer originally came with a 64GB Seagate HDD that was partitioned into two 30GB logical drives ...one partition was still empty, and the boot partition was about 75% used with XP and MS Office and the various software utilities and files I found it useful to carry with me to onsite locations. So I was pretty sure the 64GB of the Kingspec wasn't going to pose any capacity limitation issues. I'd thought about upgrading it with an SSD for several years, but it was hard justifying the expense (especially when I started to use it less). Plus, the techie community consensus seemed to be that the performance of a PATA SSD wasn't exactly all that much of an upgrade. (And finding PATA SSD's was no piece of cake a few years back, either.) Regardless, that was then, and now is now, and I've my own SSD experiences to draw upon ...and at least as far as price (and aforementioned capacity), the Kingspec at 64GB wasn't going to be much of a budgetary hardship. -------------------------------- OS UPGRADE: I decided that even though there's absolutely no driver support for Windows 7 for the little Acer (which has an old-school Intel 915GM graphics engine, and various other ancient and non-W7-supported HW bits and pieces ...you're not going to find W7 support for the 3002WTCi no matter how good your mad googling skillz are lol), it was still worth it to me to try a fresh W7 install, just to avoid the lack of support for TRIM in XP ...especially as TRIM support is kind of vital for an SSD, for longevity and performance, making a W7 attempt was "worth a shot". I also didn't want to deal with alignment issues with XP on an SSD either (there's a thread at oczforum.com - google "How to Align OCZ SSD in XP using USB - SATA and Vista recovery disk" - that explains the procedure pretty thoroughly). Sooo ...since W7 has TRIM support built-in, I decide a fresh install "just to see" would be worth the little additional effort involved in a new W7 install, even if I eventually decided I'd have to undo it all, and go with XP (I didn't really have any vital and/or personal files to worry about - they'd long since been copied to network storage - so there wasn't even a reason to clone the original drive: I just pulled the old HDD, and set it aside). Plus, I had the luxury of a spare W7-Home Premium license that I purchased years ago that I've never used: like I said, "...worth a shot." -------------------------------- OS INSTALL: The 3002WTCi is an ultra-light (by the old definition); it didn't have an internal optical drive to boot the W7 DVD setup disc from. So I googled around a bit, and found (and followed) instructions by Steve Tyler at instructables.com - google "Install Windows 7 without USB or DVD without upgrading!" - for doing a self-booting SSD install. Basically you copy the \boot and \sources folder and the "boot" file from the W7 DVD to the root of your freshly NTFS formatted SSD using a working PC, and use the Windows 7 diskpart utility to make the SSD active ...then, install the SSD to your laptop, and at first boot the process goes right into the familiar Windows 7 setup screen. I had absolutely no issues whatsoever with the setup portion of W7 on the little Acer. After a couple of the typical W7 setup process restarts, I had a working OS. Cool. NOTE: My W7 license was an upgrade license ...and the setup wouldn't accept the [entirely legal, as the laptop came with XP Pro] upgrade key because it was a "new fresh install" which was "not supported by the upgrade license". (The help menu suggested re-installing an earlier version of Windows, and then re-installing W7: LOLOL. *That* wasn't going to happen!) So I skipped past the license key entry screen (which turns a new install into a 30-day trial), and went looking for an alternative solution. To get around that problem [error code 0xC004F061], I found instructions by Kapil Arya at thewindowsclub.com (google "FIX : Error 0xC004F061, Unable To Use Product Key For Clean Install") that detailed changing a DWORD key setting in the Registry (change the value of HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/MediaBootInstall from the default value of "1" to a "0") and then running the command "slmgr /rearm" in an elevated prompt command ...which fixed the issue. -------------------------------- POST INSTALL DRIVER ISSUES: After the Windows Setup process was finally complete, I booted into an 800x600 resolution display (heck: at least it was better than 640x480), and was able to change that to 1024x768 using the default W7 VGA driver. The trackpad worked as far as basic functionality. The keyboard worked just fine. The wired network port didn't report any errors (thank you Broadcom). The USB ports worked (good thing, too). Gratifyingly enough, the laptop was more than marginally functional at first boot. All the more specialized HW bits were down. No internal wireless (this was *not* a huge issue AFAIWC, since I had stopped using the internal wireless years ago, as it simply couldn't connect to any modern-era, n-capable routers ...it was great with the old Linksys WRT54G, but c'mon lol). No sound card (I'm not sure there is sound yet, though the error is gone ...just haven't tested it). UPDATE (06/2014): I got the internal network card to work after all (it was me, not it lol). But - more serious - the stock W7 VGA driver didn't support the 1280x768 native resolution of the little Acer (a Very Big Deal that would have killed continuing using W7 for me). To cut to the chase: most driver related issues were fixable, by the simple expedient of installing the original XP drivers, in compatibility mode. (Find the particular XP era, driver setup executable, and right click, choose Properties, click the Compatibility tab, and check-mark "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" (choose XP) and you're good. At least in the case of the little Acer, XP drivers haven't appeared to cause any deal-killer problems.) The only caveat to installing XP drivers in compatibility mode is that the older Intel graphics driver - while supporting the resolution just fine - isn't, ever, going to win any speed contests. Plus, the Intel 915GM chipset simply does *not* support W7 Aero functions at all at the hardware level (which is not the fault of the driver itself); it's old, and that's just the way it is. There's no work-around. Which leads to: I'd suggest (highly!recommend!) that you set the graphics properties to "Classic Windows" and change the Advanced Options to "Performance" ...because with those settings, the display performance is at least perfectly acceptable for mundane Internet related purposes like browsing and emails. The WEI 1.0 rating of the graphics card is the worst rating (of any piece of hardware) I've ever seen. You're not going to do any gaming beyond solitaire with this, lol. But its performance *is* fine for almost anything else. -------------------------------- MISC. OBSERVATIONS: I'd do this again in a minute. It was well worth the $70 to have a reasonably quick "spare" laptop (whose entire history I am intimately familiar with). The Acer is much, much quicker in common usage with W7 on the SSD. Much. Quicker. (This observation seems to contrast with other reviewers who stayed with XP installs, and reported lesser gains. While the little Acer is [still] not a speed demon due to the use of an SSD, it is transparently and obviously faster ...which was also the case when we updated my wife's older Lenovo X-series laptop. So if you have a Windows 7 license, you might want to try upgrading even older, non-supported hardware - using XP compatibility mode for drivers - before you stay with XP. Just sayin' - and YMMV - but W7 worked for me.) ...I will follow-up in a few months if I have any additional observations. If the SSD has any issues at all, I'll also do a follow-up. -------------------------------- UPDATE (06/2014): As stated above, the internal network card is, actually, working. (Basically, I should have been paying closer attention during the post-install setup lol.) ...and I've found the little laptop useful enough to have installed an old Office 2010 license to it (which install demonstrated that some hardware performance issues aren't mitigated by the faster SSD: the 2010 install took a couple of *hours* lol ...I've upgraded to Office 2013 subscription for the rest of my workstations, and as the little Acer has proven to be - again - useful, I decided it needed a proper email app' ...and I've long since been an Office Outlook "fanboy" lol). ...still no real issues. It's not a multi-tasking warrior (the Acer's 2GB of RAM is adequate for single-tasking), but it's proven pretty do-able for keeping a few IE tabs open. (I open Outlook "as needed", and close it afterwards.)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great performance upgrade for a 2005 Compaq Presario M2000
*by T***C on February 24, 2013*

My Windows XP, 2005 Compaq Presario M2000 notebook was slow and frustrating with its constantly grinding-away 40GB 5400 RPM hard drive (IDE/ATA). Even with a 1.5GHz Intel Celeron CPU and 500MB of RAM running XP, it felt almost unusable, even with anti-virus off, System Restore off, and a crazy-fast WiFi internet connection. But instead of junking the Compaq, I installed this KingSpec 32GB SSD, and the results so far after a few days have been AMAZING. I first cloned the Windows XP hard drive to the SSD using Apricorn's cloning kit which comes with cloning software (PC and Mac) and a very nice external drive enclosure. The cloning process took maybe 15 minutes over USB 2.0. Then I put the KingSpec SSD into the Compaq and booted no problem. But then I noticed the right click on trackpad didn't work, and had trouble booting, getting stuck at the "Compaq" welcome. So, recloned the HDD to the SSD after turning off System Restore, and the second clone went much faster, and everything works PERFECTLY not. For best results, I recommend you turn off your Windows XP "System Restore" feature, which erases all previous versions of XP that are indexed on your HDD, although I'm not sure if that was the initial problem. Anyway, the Apricorn cloned my NTFS file format XP over to the KingSpec SSD, and so far, I'm loving the performance improvement. Instead of booting in a minute, it boots in like 30 seconds. Internet Explorer and Firefox open in seconds instead of getting bogged down with that hourglass, and surfing the web is as effortless now as having a 2012 PC. Using the software uninstall feature in Control Panel of XP used to take a long time to populate the list of programs, but now takes less than 30 seconds. Installing TurboTax and booting it must be twice as fast now, and there's no more constantly-grinding HDD working itself to death, just silent, fast operation. I don't know how it works with anti-virus programs running in the background, as the Compaq was so slow with them running, I turned them off or uninstalled them, and am now only doing periodic scans. I also have System Restore off, like before. Overall, for $50, on a light-duty old PC, this was totally worth the expense. I really love it, and highly recommend both this KingSpec SSD and Apricorn's cloning kit. Plus, with Apricorn and this SSD installed, you can do a clone to your old HDD in the supplied internal enclosure. XP won't boot from an external USB drive, but you can save the old cloned HDD as a non-bootable backup.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Works well in Dell Latitude D610
*by F***A on July 12, 2015*

The KingSpec 128GB IDE SSD drive is working very well after two weeks in a Dell Latitude D610 configured with maximum of 2GB RAM and Pentium M 2.26GHz CPU. The old 100GB 7,200 RPM hard disk was dual-boot with Windows XP Pro on partition 1, Windows 7 Home Premium on partition 2, a Data volume on partition 3, and an Application volume on partition 4. Acronis True Image 2014 was used to clone the installed old 100GB hard disk to the 128GB KingSpec SSD drive via the system’s USB 2.0 ports to an external 2.5" IDE drive enclosure. After installing the 128GB SSD drive in the system, both Windows XP and 7 booted normally and much faster, and found and configured the new hardware. The CPU is at maximum usage much of the time when the system is actively used, but system performance is very responsive and satisfying. Windows 7 enters and exits Sleep Mode very quickly and without problems. System startup and shutdown are also relatively quick. (A similarly configured Dell Inspiron 6000 with a 5,400 RPM hard disk frequently bogs down severely if a background task such as antivirus or Windows update activity is processing.) The D610 is used with a notebook cooler. At idle, CPU temp is about 42 deg C, SSD temp is about 45 deg C, and CPU fan is off. At heavy CPU load (long running MalwareBytes scan), CPU temp is 80-85 deg C, SSD temp is 50-55 deg C, and CPU fan speed is 3,200-4,000 RPM. (Measured using HDTune, SpeedFan, and I8kfanGUI). 2015/11/20 Update: The Kingspec 128GB SSD and D610 continue to work very well after 5 + months. Applied Arctic Silver 5 to CPU and tweaked I8kfanGUI settings. CPU temp now at 70 deg C or less _without_ the notebook cooler even with 100% CPU usage. Installed a second Kingspec in another D610.

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