Even though you probably can’t get an SSD drive for your laptop right now, unless you sell your kidney or something, you can already buy a nifty converter that will allow you to turn two Compact Flash cards into a virtual SSD, although with rather limited speed. And you can purchase it today from this shop.
What’s surprising about this drive is that it has a limit of 2TB. So all you have to do is purchase two 1GB Compact Flash cards and you’re all set, oh… wait…
Unfortunately, as has been said many times before, CF is not SSD.
CompactFlash has a service life of something like 100,000 writes before the media dies, or at least becomes unstable. Have a think about what would happen if you put a Windows swapfile on that. That’s right, time to spend several hundred dollars on CF cards every few months.
CF-to-IDE adapters, or laptop adapters such as this one, are great for things like embedded systems (such as lightweight Linux) which can run entirely in RAM and don’t write back to their boot media often (or at all), but not so hot for Windows.
Just FYI.
Super Jamie’s comment is partially correct.
The memory used in SSDs has the same problem as the memory used in a CF, and a fix for that problem. The fix is a controller that tracks write locations and more evenly uses the memory. This extends the overall life. So the big question is if this unit has a proper controller or not.
Also, you can optimize Windows, and turn off its swapping, so if you want to use Windows, you can. Just be ready to have at least 1 GB of RAM, and 2 is a lot better.
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