The bulk of SSD solid-state drives are manufactured to the modern SATA II specification. Careful selection will find standard ATA SSD's (sometimes referred to as PATA - Parallel ATA as well such as this low-cost Transcend ATA interface 2.5" 64GB drive -for retrofitting in somewhat older computers before the SATA standard superceded it. Still a huge market out there for ATA interface solid-state drives - tho the latest NAND-Flash technology can now exceed the data transfer rates of an ATA interface.

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