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If you have a Fujitsu Siemens LfeBook E8010 and wish to replace the hard drive by something slightly faster, here is how to do it.

The machine was equipped with a Fujitsu MHV2060AH, a 2.5", 5400 RPM, 60 GB IDE hard drive.

The machine specs indicate that it's using UDMA/100 interface, but in practice the tests reported it running at UDMA/33 speed and reported as MODE 2 in Windows.

I was not able to find any settings to tweak, and there are no cables you can change since it's directly plugged on a connector.

In order to use a SSD, you need a IDE to "whatever" interface, which in my case was "mSATA" (the ancestor of what is now called NVME or m.2), plus of course a matching SSD.

The new LiteOn SSD is significantly faster at random accesses as well as writes, but it's still limited to UDMA/33 speed , so the machine is definitely better at "multi tasking" but not much faster to load single workloads.

Link to the disassembly guide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00StVcPVmtI

Link to some facts about the machine:
https://www.fujitsu.com/downloads/COMP/fpcap/notebooks/previous/factsheet_lb_e8010.pdf

You can also find a PDF copy of the user manual here:
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/246372/Fujitsu-Lifebook-E8010.html