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

[Dave McGuire]

On June 27, 2024 12:37:26 PM 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?
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> Yes, there are - I never knew about them!
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> Apparently you can just go on eBay or Amazon and pickup a brand new IDE SSD, like this one:
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> KingSpec 32GB 2.5 inch PATA/IDE SSD, MLC Flash SM2236 Controller Internal Solid State Disk
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> https://a.co/d/07g9igRs
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> 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?
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> I don't have any ide-based workstations, but boy if I did, I think I'd be trying this out.

  I've been running something similar to that in a Sun Fire V100 for many years. Works great.

               -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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