Disklavier

Using the instructions from kenruda and Hort0922, I made the solid state drive (SSD) mod this weekend, and everything works.  I used a Transcend 128 GB IDE SSD from newegg.com, and a StarTech drive mounting bay kit from Amazon, copied the old drive data to the SSD with Linux, then expanded the data partition to use the entire drive.  Bootup is much faster and I don't hear the hard drive grinding as it searches for sectors any more  -- but the best thing is that I don't have to worry about a hard drive failure.  The most time-consuming part of the mod was labeling all the connectors in the I/O center so I'd be sure to get them all back in the right place.

128 GB is the largest IDE SSD I could find.  I could have used a SATA drive for even more space, but this would have required an adapter, and I wanted to keep the mod as simple as possible.  The new drive adds about 41 GB of storage which is more than enough.  Total cost was about $175.

George