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

[Henry Bent]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 at 12:37, Lionel Peterson via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
wrote:

> 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.
>

I used a regular Intel SATA SSD with a SATA->PATA adapter in an IBM PC365
(dual Pentium Pro) for a while.  It worked just fine, though it was
obviously pushing the limits of what the bus could accommodate.  I would
certainly trust a brand name SATA SSD over a no-name PATA one.

My recollection is that the CMD IDE controller in the Ultra 5/10 had some
issues even with standard PATA drives, so I'd certainly want to be able to
return (or repurpose/eat the cost of) anything that I bought for it.

-Henry
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