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[gert79]

Thank you for the input ssp3.

Ok so no KingSpec for me. Ages ago they were the only ones that made affordable pata SSDs, I still have a 64GB one with a white plastic enclosure somewhere, I think I bought it in 2010.

I am in Slovakia currently so anything above 100 euro is expensive for me in relation to the salary...

Used SSD I am not so much a fan, you don't know what other people did with it and wear level can be bad.

How is the compatibility with M.2 SSDs generally, are there some specs I can follow and this would guarantee it works?

That white box adapter seems like a good solution, I will buy that one and then look for a brand SSD elsewhere.

Edit: ok it seems this adapters do only B type SSD and I did a little research, it seems you cannot buy any brand B type anymore.

Thinking....

How is the compact flash adapter solution route in regard to wear and read/write speed? I am using CF on my boss multitracker so I would even have some small spare drives.

[ssp3]

Ok so no KingSpec for me. Ages ago they were the only ones that made affordable pata SSDs, I still have a 64GB one with a white plastic enclosure somewhere, I think I bought it in 2010.

If you still have it then use it. It probably has mSATA drive inside, which could be swapped for better one.

I am in Slovakia currently so anything above 100 euro is expensive for me in relation to the salary...

Did anyone said anything about 100 EUR? The Samsung M.2 drive I mentioned plus adapter will set you back not more than 25,00.

Used SSD I am not so much a fan, you don't know what other people did with it and wear level can be bad.

C'mon gert79, don't be such chicken. What could they have done to the poor drives?
PM871b is OEM version of 850 Evo made for Lenovo and HP and they usually come from company laptops, when 2nd hand dealers buy them en masse at sales and then upgrade internal drives to bigger ones. So, usually, being a company laptops, they have seen only office work. No torrents, no large videos etc.
I check all my drives with DriveDx in OSX. Out of 26 PM871b drives that I have, 2/3 have more than 90% life left. Worst one, from the batch of 5 that I bought in Germany, had 65% left. Other 4 were around 80%. But I only paid 5 EUR a piece for those.
In OS9 the amount of data transferred is so small, that, even if drive has 65% of resources left, it will probably outlive us.

How is the compact flash adapter solution route in regard to wear and read/write speed? I am using CF on my boss multitracker so I would even have some small spare drives.

Slooooooooooow...

P.S. I usually don't sell anything on forums, but, if you can't find anything, I can put together one drive + adapter for you. I'm in EU, but not sure how much shipping would be to your location.