Newbie in need of advice please

Hi All
I have recently bought equipment a Panasonic professionally refurbished CF 29 for my work as I am a breakdown mechanic working on access equipment (Scissor Lifts and Cherry Pickers) and on Building sites and in the middle of nowhere a lot, and nowadays all the Schematics are on line rather than books. It has a 80 GB HD at the moment. I am looking to get a 350 GB HD, I am a bit confused as I have looked about this site about getting a larger HD for this model and it puzzles me that the link I looked at has PATA Connections not SATA? is this correct and can you get a adapter that will fit and work in a CF 29 so I can get a 350GB Solid State HD? I know this is a question that might have been askes a thousand times before but !
you might all be rolling about laughing at what i've asked but when you get yourself off the floor I would like to know
Regards

Lorrick

 

There are adapter but it would be useless because the Pata would nerf the SSD to HDD performance levels. So it's better to just get a bigger HDD

 

Thank you Danishblunt for your reply, I think I get what you are saying?. It would slow the Solid State Drive down to Hard Disc Drive speed so might as well go for a larger Standard Hard Disc.
Is that correct. As I say I fix engines not computers, thanks for the help.

 

Exacly, the bandwitdh of the Pata is so low that getting a converter to SSD is completely pointless.

The max data transfer rate is around 130MB at best. A typical SATA HDD has around ~150. That's already well above the limit.

So stick with a 7200RPM Pata drive.

 

Thank you very much for yopur help.
Regards

Lorrick

 

Hi Again
I have tried all over the net and the largest size PATA drive 2.5" is around 128GB, anyone know of a larger disc ? PATA
Thanks

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-HDD-We...357402?hash=item3d554171da:g:yYAAAOSwuzRXegJC

 

Thank you once again, that was the last place I would look was Ebay USA as I am in the UK, I will get one.

Regards
Lorrick

 

Well... eBay UK exists too.

 

Hi Over Tallman
I did have a look through on UK Ebay but I was getting very confused with drive speeds, What IDE, PATA. SATA,SSD, SSHD, CASH, and a lot of other stuff meant, So instead of making a big mistake, that is why I asked the question, as I said somewhere before I fix engines, not Computers. so not really up to speed on it all. I still thought the 486 is the latest upgrade

 

IDE is teh same as PATA.

 

Tak Danish, I'm slowly learning

 

Okay... so you're looking for a 2.5" IDE/PATA hard drive for your CF-29, well I just did a search on eBay UK and there were lots of offers either locally or from China. 40GB-160GB are pretty common, 250GB and 320GB are rarer however they do exist, prepare to fork considerable money though. IIRC 2.5" IDE/PATA 7200rpm HDD tops out at 100GB, anything bigger would be 5400rpm.

 

I already posted a link with a 320GB drive, 46bucks with free shipping seems alright by me.

 

Alright, though US$46 seems a huge investment to me considering how old CF-29 is. Oh and don't forget the delivery which can take a long time.

 

Hi Danishblunt and Over Tallman
Sorry to take so long getting back to you, I could not get on the site this morning at 4am when on way to work. I have got it sorted now thank you I thought the same $46 then the import duty and VAT. I get a lot of spares from the USA and there does not seem to be a logical way they sort out the import duty and then vat on top. So once I knew what I was looking for I got one from the UK. Thanks for your help. I did take notice of what you both said and I do really appreciate the help.
Regards
Lorrick