SSD on HP 2510P notebook

Dear all,

A year ago I bought a HP 2510p notebook, with an 1,8inch 4200RPM 100gb HDD in it. This is a serious bottleneck, so I want to upgrade to an SSD.

I have been looking on the internet for hours and hours, but can't find a definitive answer to my question: What SSD will fit in my 2510P?

The current harddrive is an Toshiba MK1011GAH.
I have found on this forum that a Photofast G-monster 1,8inch zif V3 might fit, but as I far as I can see, no one is for sure.

Could some please give me the definitive answer which SSD to buy for my laptop? I need a 64gb SSD drive. I need the CD-rom bay, so it really needs to replace the current Toshiba HDD. I also see that I should buy a caddy of some sort or a converter, could someone please enlighten that too for me?

Thanks in advance!

Greets Marco

 

the photofast should fit without problems. dunno how good it really is.

the mtron 32gb zif fits, i have used it. too small for you, but it does work. so any zif drive should work, and i guess the newest photofast, v3, should be good (indilinx based, which is used f.e. in the ocz vertex, one of the leading ssds).

 

See 1.8" ZIF here. sata-to-pata optical bay caddy ($42) + Gen 2 80GB Intel X25-M ($225) a good bang-per-buck option.

 

Ok, thanks for your response.
I found this SSD on a UK site, and I hope that with this specifications anyone can ASSURE me that it will fit in my 2510p, since this is a too large investment to take a gamble.

I found a different site in Taiwan that sells ZIF ssd from photofast, and they have plain ZIF drives and PATA ZIF drives, so I am not sure which kind this is, and what kind I need for my 2510p.

SKU: PF18Z64GSSDZIFV3
1.8" small form factor
40 Pin ZIF FPC Connector
Support True IDE Mode HDD Compatible
Support PIO mode 0 - 6 and Ultra DMA 0 - 6
On board Data buffer: SDRAM 64MB
Read upto 100 MB/s
Write upto 100 MB/s
4K Random Write 12MB/s
Wear Leveling technology (Global wear-leveling to
even write/erase counts in NAND)
BCH 13 / 24-bit ECC (Error Code Correction) technology
DOS/WinCE/Linux/WinXP/Vista bootable
Support SMART and ATA security commend set
High performance
Low power consumption
Highly reliability
MTBF > 1,000,000
Size: 54mm x 71mm x 5.0mm
Data Retention 10 years
Shock Resistant: 1500G
Vibration Resistant: 20G Peak
One Year Warranty


Please respond.
Thanks in advance

 

Yes - that's the photofast V3 ZIF drive. It is in essence a OCZ Vertex (Indilinx controller) in a 1.8" chassis using an internal sunplus sata-to-pata adapter. Supposedly a great performer. but at $301 pounds for 64GB, it's a pricey option.