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Martin Gregorie   wrote:
>I got the T420 as a replacement for the old R61i and was going to sling
>the latter when its disk (120GB) failed because its disk interface
>hardware refused point blank to handle any disk of over 256GB, and by
>that time you couldn't find any disks of less than 320GB capacity. But it
>seemed a shame to bin it, so I fitted a 128GB Sandisk SSD and was amazed
>by its performance for disk-related stuff. It still seems slow for
>compiles etc, though, compared with the T420.

An M.2 to 2.5" SATA (or PATA, if it's old enough to use that) adapter is one
route to getting smaller drives for older computers.  I recently dropped a
240GB M.2 stick into a G4 Mac mini (probably slower than a Raspberry Pi 3,
to keep on topic) this way.  Boot time into Mac OS X is measurably quicker,
and the extra space is now hosting a Gentoo Linux install.  Total cost for
the M.2 stick and the PATA adapter was about $40.

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