Dell D810 Hard Drive Options

I have 3 Dell D810s still in regular rotation. Although I am not a Dell fanboy, I have to say that I love this model. That is why I have 3 of them and the screens are awesome!

I would like to extend the life of them a little bit longer by adding a SSD and it appears that all of the SSDs that I see are SATA based.

My questions are :

Are there any EIDE based SSD?

Is there an adapter that will let me use a SATA drive in my D810 ? (Something that will give me the blade adapter needed for Dell machines.)

Thanks,

Eunix

 

I found some IDE SSDs but not in the capacity that is worth the cost. I may be able to fashion an adapter but I may have to custom build a drive caddy

 

If you don't need your optical drive, you can get caddies for the D-Bay that take SATA hard drives. You'll be limited by the max throughput of the IDE bus in sequential transfer, but you will still be able to take advantage of high random read/write speeds.

 

it's not worth the hassle. even convetional harddrives max out IDE quiet easily. you wont get any speed improvement from a ssd connected via ide.

 

Thanks for the hints.
I think the only feasible option would be to use the D-Bay and boot from SSD.
The older IDE/SSD are not worth the cost.

I would hate to give up the CD/DVD slot but I do have a docking station with a bay and expansion port.

I may just leave it alone period as I am quite happy with the performance and longevity of these machines. It just seems a little sluggish at times when I put too much of a load on it and the boot time is a little slow.

I just thought that if I could replace the primary drive with a SSD (120G) for a reasonable price, I could extend the functionality.

In regards to the life of the machine.... I will use it until the wheels fall off!

If I decide to go ahead with the project, I will let the group know and post some performance differences.

Eunix