Netbook ASUS T91MT Upgrading SSD

Hello, I have an Asus Eee PC T91MT with its original SanDisk pSSD-P2 32GB drive, since year 2009 working with Windows 7 but still works fine for single office and navigation works but is some slow

I want to give it a second life because this small netbook is usefull, but i don't know if nowadays exist any compatible SSD.

Anyone knows what compatible SSD could I buy?

Thanks.

 

Any 2.5 SSD should be fine, maybe an MSATA. Though you should consider chucking it and getting something better IMO

 

The size is like mSATA, exactly its a miniPCIe connector/form factor but my SanDisk pSSD has interface PATA , is not SATA, so can I install a mSATA SSD? Is this an upgrade compatible?

Here some information about my SanDisk pSSD-P2:

full information: http://onlinefreeguides.com/manual/312961/sandisk-pssd-p2-storage-2/

Here a image of my SanDisk pSSD-P2 installed:

 

My question is, why are you still bothering with something this bad? Why not just but a newer windows machine? But a MSATA might work? If not, just use the 2.5 inch slot for a SSD

 

This "something this bad" is enough usefull for the use that I give it, but for 40$ in a new SSD the improvement would be remarkable.

PS: This Netbook hasn't a 2.5 inch slot, just has that miniPCIe slot ("mSATA") that you can see in the photo that I attached.

 

But its slow enough that you can't even do what you want, a new SSD is not going to solve that

 

The loss of performance of the SSD was remarkable, although the netbook is bad the big cause is the SSD

 

No, the performance is plain bad from the get go, 1GB RAM and a Atom CPU? Worse than my phone...

 

haha yes worse than a phone, although it currently has 2GB RAM, anyway it is enough for running Windows 7 and for basic computing tasks

Anyway I only try to upgrade SSD spending about 50$, I do not need to spend 350$ on a new notebook, I do not see any problem in it, But we are digressing from what I wanted to ask about.

 

Did some research on T91MT and it seems it uses mPCIe form factor PATA SSD, just like Dell Inspiron Mini 9 (910)/Vostro A90 and Asus Eee PC 900. Given your budget, your only choice is the one from KingSpec, currently selling in eBay for $51 for 32GB version.

I've used 2 of these SSDs, speed is decent but they'd occasionally stutter while writing a lot of files, it's a well known issue of the JMicron JMF608 controller on them. It sucks but you don't really have a lot of choices right now, AFAIK KingSpec has stopped producing such oddball SSDs.

 

Thanks for this info although seems bad news
So, no mSATA SSD will works on T91MT?

I found this info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#Mini-SATA_(mSATA)_variant

Maybe exist any compatible mSATA, How could I be sure if my mPCIe slot is valid for both IDE(PATA) and SATA?

 

Just Google your netbook model

To save you some time, T91 uses 50mm mPCIe form factor mini SATA SSD (same as the one in Eee PC 901), T91 MT uses 50mm mPCIe form factor PATA SSD (same as the one in Dell Inspiron Mini 9/910), this compatibility chart should provide lots of useful info regarding this matter. Also, don't mix up the mini SATA SSD with mSATA SSD, they're totally different.

All in all, there are three types of SSD with similar form factor but are incompatible with each other:

• mPCIe form factor PATA SSD
  
• mPCIe form factor SATA SSD
  
• mSATA SSD

With the info above, you'll realize mSATA SSD will not work on your T91MT.

 

A very useful information, and here https://forums.tweaktown.com/runcore/38236-t91mt-runcore-ssd.html they also confirm what you told me, although the first versions of T91MT had a SATA interface (I dont know if they refer to mPCIe form factor SATA SSD or mSATA SSD)

Anyway my T91MT is PATA.

Thanks!