SATA II SSD in Powerbook G4

[mfacey]

The HDD in my old Powerbook G4 recently died and I managed to get my hands on a complementary 64GB SSD from OCZ. As it turns out the drive is SATA II whereas the Powerbook undoubtedly is just a regular SATA machine. Is SATA II backwards compatible? In other words will the SSD work in my Powerbook? Thanks!

 

[alphaod]

Actually the PowerBook is only IDE.

But in spirits of answering the question, SATA 2 is backwards compatible.

 

[mfacey]

So I found out shortly afterwards... I ended up going out and getting a 160GB Seagate Momentus 3 5400 RPM PATA drive. Nothing special but I'm glad my powerbook is up and running again.


Replacing the drive was actually suprisingly easy!

 

[macrumorino]

The $124.99 question is whether the Transcend SSD MLC IDE version here would be an improvement or the opposite in terms of raw performance,

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208431

as compared to the WD 250 GB 5400 RPM that is the obvious alternative. My Tibook wants to know.