Review on 💾 KingSpec 2.5-inch PATA/IDE SSD Solid State Disk with 32GB Capacity (MLC Flash) and SM2236 Controller by Dennis Brinson

Name: 💾 KingSpec 2.5-inch PATA/IDE SSD Solid State Disk with 32GB Capacity (MLC Flash) and SM2236 Controller
Item: 💾 KingSpec 2.5-inch PATA/IDE SSD Solid State Disk with 32GB Capacity (MLC Flash) and SM2236 Controller
Rating: 5

October 28, 2022

New Life for an Old Dell Inspiron Laptop

I've repurposed an old Dell laptop as a file, cloud and VPN server. After 5 years of 24/7 operation, the original IDE hard drive finally failed. Found this IDE/PATA SSD as a cheaper replacement. Reinstalled Linux Lubuntu, OpenSSH and OpenVPN and then brought my laptop back to the server. So far, so good! .This SSD has been running non-stop 24 hours a day, 7 days a week since 2016!

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