Q: SSD (solid stat drive) compatiabilty

Did you ever find out if there was an SSD solution for the iBook G4? I am currently trying to replace my drive and I've tried a transcend SLC SSD IDE drive with no luck. 10.3 didn't like it. When I booted from the CD it said that the SSD was an unsupported volume (even though i was able to format it with disk utility and it says it's bootable in disk utility)

H3Hummer wrote:
I purchased a travel iBook G4. I won't need it for hard drive space but would like to possibly put a 16 or 32 Gig solid state drive in it.

It is a iBook G4 1 GHz machine. Not sure of the compatiablity besides IDE interface. Is it 44 pin? Any other information would be very helpful.

I thought there's only one type of interface for 2.5" IDE (parallel ATA) notebook drives. Here are a few:

http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1258727
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1630044
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1394845
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1547602

I too am interested in installing a solid state drive (SSD) in an iBook. My iBook is a 12" G4 (circa late 2005) running OS 10.4.11 with a 40 GB hard drive. The drive is getting full and I plan to replace it before it dies of old age. I am debating between a new hard drive (cheap, big, and vulnerable) or an SSD (expensive, fast, and durable).

Transcend makes some interesting IDE interface SSD's and the prices are coming down.

http://www.transcendusa.com/Products/ModDetail.asp?ModNo=164&SpNo=-99&LangNo=0

The 64 GB models would be big enough for me. They recommend the Single-Level Cell (SLC) models for OS installations, but those models are too expensive for me. The alternative is the Multiple-Level Cell models, which are much cheaper.

Has anybody successfully installed an IDE interface SSD in a G4 iBook? If so, did you use a SLC SSD or a MLC SSD? Are the MLC SSD's fast enough and reliable enough to install as the internal drive in an iBook?