The short answer is "probably not much" even if it has an IDE interface, since that's all those older machines are equipped for. Remember, no SATA or other such newfangled stuff. The reason is that the data bus and I/O chips on those older motherboards are clocked at 133MHz or less. It was fast then, but will be the limiting factor in writing to a solid state drive.
You can do solid state drives for less than those new things will cost, probably. There are little adapters that take a camera-style memory card and turn it into an IDE or SATA drive. They sell for as little as $20 US. Probably not good for quite as many write cycles as the latest Intel thingie, but memory cards are cheap and getting cheaper. Still no moving parts, which is the big saving.
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Date: 2009-10-22 02:40 pm (UTC)You can do solid state drives for less than those new things will cost, probably. There are little adapters that take a camera-style memory card and turn it into an IDE or SATA drive. They sell for as little as $20 US. Probably not good for quite as many write cycles as the latest Intel thingie, but memory cards are cheap and getting cheaper. Still no moving parts, which is the big saving.