[rescue] IDE SSDs? I never knew...

[Lionel Peterson]

So I was watching a retro computing video and the 'host' mentioned deciding NOT to put an SSD in a 20 year-old 486 laptop, and it got me wondering... are there IDE SSDs?

Yes, there are - I never knew about them!

Apparently you can just go on eBay or Amazon and pickup a brand new IDE SSD, like this one:

KingSpec 32GB 2.5 inch PATA/IDE SSD, MLC Flash SM2236 Controller Internal Solid State Disk

https://a.co/d/07g9igRs

At a little over a $1/GB it's not *terribly*expensive... but I have to ask, has anyone used such a drive in, say, an old sun workstation 5 or 10?

I don't have any ide-based workstations, but boy if I did, I think I'd be trying this out.


Ken
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