There’s a recommendation at Juniper clue on which SSD to use when replacing the traditional notebook-grade 2,5″ PATA HDD in your routing engine. The recommended Transcend 8 GB SSD is a bit outdated and was hard to find, so I gave the following Transcend 32 GB (model TS32GPSD320) a try: Amazon link.
Well, the most important thing is: the drive works fine! However, due to some tiny design flaw in the range of millimeters the result looks like this:
That means you can’t tighten the SSD to the RE and it will be sitting there half in the air. Anyways, it does work. :-)
There’s a new version of this drive available, which seems, amongst other things to have a lower power consumption:
http://www.amazon.com/Transcend-PSD330-2-5-inch-Internal-Solid/dp/B00AQT2LCU/ref=dp_ob_title_ce
I do not know if it fixes the “mechanical” problem reported, I’m wondering if those drives would outlast their mechanical counterparts, which can be found for relatively cheap.