Old Tosh convert IDE to SSD?

Probably a stupid question but I'll ask it anyway,

Is it possible to attach a 32GB SSD via an SATA/IDE converter on a Portege 3110CT date cia 2000.

The notebook currently has a 6.4GB 4200rpm Ultra DMA 33, 2.5” IDE HDD.

Would the system still see the device considering BIOS (IDE standard or extended) and etc or am I just limited to PATA HDD.

The thing is, as it's running WinXP SP3 with only 192MB of physical memory, at 350MB memory usage over 33% of memory is swapped out to disk.
With HDD running at 4200rpm it really impacts the system.

I have another 3110CT with an 80GB ATA6 HDD running at 5200rpm and it's noticebly faster.

So my thinking (which may not be logical) is that a SSD would be even faster.

Oh and yes, I have an Alienware M11x already, so yes I have a proper notebook.

 

You can ONLY use a PATA hard drive in that system. Since there are no PATA SSD drives there is no way to use one on that laptop. Even using a converter, which would essentially render the system immobile, wouldn't help much. Due to the slow ATA 2 (I'm fairly certain it's that slow) interface of that old of a laptop you wouldn't notice that much of an improvement in performance, especially considering the price you would pay for it. You might be able to notice a difference in access times, but I don't think you would notice that much difference in throughput as the ATA-2 simply doesn't have that much bandwidth to support it.