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

[Alexander Jacocks]

I, too, use msata -> ide adapters in vintage equipment. However, I don't
agree that it's a waste.

There are a couple of reasons that I feel this way:
1) lower power draw and heat generation is always good for vintage
electronics
2) lower access time _feels_ fast, even with low max transfer rate

So, all my vintage laptops, at this point, use ssd/flash media of some
kind. This is especially true on my scsi-based portables, where the very
small total production of 8-bit serial scsi 2.5" disks limits the number of
original units available, and those original disks were not the most
reliable, even when new.

- Alex

On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 12:49 PM Mark Benson via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
wrote:

> The cheapest and easiest way to put SSDs in an IDE  system, at least for
> systems with Ultra ATA (IDE & EIDE can be a bit patchy) is using a PATA to
> MSATA or PATA to m.2 SATA adapter. Typically these are 2.5" size. I've used
> them in a lot of Powerbooks, as well as G3 and G4 Power Macs via 2.5" to
> 3.5" adapters.
>
> Unless you are out of other options it's a bit of a waste in a 486 though.
>
>
> --
>
> Mark
>
> On 27 Jun 2024, at 17:37, 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.
>
>
> Ken
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