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

[Alexander Jacocks]

So far, as much as I love the BlueSCSI devices, they aren't really fast
enough for even legacy Sun equipment. I'm sure performance improvements
will come with time.

- Alex



On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 1:52 PM Dave McGuire via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
wrote:

> 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?
> >
> > 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've been running something similar to that in a Sun Fire V100 for many
> years. Works great.
>
>                -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
>
>
>
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