HP compact mini 700 invention

[darko]

I have just been given an HP compac mini700 netbook, it turns out that it is missing the hard drive and I didn't want to spend a euro on it. I installed linux mint on an 8 gb pendrive, and it works well, a bit slow because the pen has low read and write speeds.
I was thinking of buying a mini USB pen of 16 Gb, TDK micro model in reduced format, it has a write speed of 17 mb/s and read speed of 18 mb/s; and getting rid of the other USB pen that is a bit "big", and this one is small and barely visible when connected to the port.
The other alternative is that I have an ATA disk from a laptop of 30 Gb, and I was thinking of an ATA to USB adapter, and since the netbook doesn't have a battery, I would make up something and put it in that housing that fits perfectly and connect it via USB.
Both ideas are a bit "messy" but as I said, I don't want to spend a lot, I would only use it for wireless audits and little more.
What do you advise me?
Thanks

[Franziskaner]

The most "pulled" thing I found at the moment is this
LogiLink Adapter USB 2.0 to 2.5 + 3.5 Zoll IDE + SATA HDD OTB, USB - IDE/SATA, Black (imported): Amazon.es: Computers & Accessories
Best regards

[Yorus]

About the two options, here's my opinion:

• Pendrive: Don't you have an SD card reader? Maybe it would be better to put an SDHC card in it as fast as possible within what you want to spend and that will be really integrated.

• USB adapter: In the case of what Franziskaner posted, I just want to comment that I have one very similar at work and for a laptop IDE disk you only need the main module (the one with the IDE connector itself) since for laptop disks it already supplies the current with what it gets from the USB.

[darko]

Thanks to both of you for your interest, I had also thought about the SD card but forgot to mention it, what I think is that the read and write access holds me back a bit, if I get a class 10 it's 10 mb/s, and the usb pen has more speed and the thing about the main IDE module is interesting.
I'll look up the IDE module on google.
Thanks, comrades...