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I want to upgrade my 17" Powerbook G4 (running MacOS 10.4.11 on 1.5GHz, 2GB RAM, 160 GB HDD (IDE/PATA)) - with, for example, a 250GB mSATA or M.2 (SATA) SDD (60-80 EUR), and a suitable adapter 44-pin (Mini-IDE) to mSATA (<10 EUR) or to M.2 (around 20 EUR).

Is there a potential problem which I should consider in more detail using an SSD, especially non-IDE, in such an old Powerbook? Could there be a problem with fast wearing out of the SSD with any wrong SSD management by MacOS 10.4 (or 10.5)?

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I don't have any experience with doing so on a Mac, but it works with something like a ThinkPad X40 or X41, for example, where it's quite a common upgrade.

Using a modern mSATA SSD with a 1.8" IDE converter, as shown in the picture, is the only feasible way to upgrade a ThinkPad X40/X41, as they used 1.8" IDE drives, which are impossible to find these days.

mSATA > 1.8" IDE converter

You'll have to look into whether TRIM will work on older versions of MacOSX, but SSDs are pretty cheap these days.

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