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

[Todd Vernon]

 I did some benchmarking of ZuluSCSI RP2040’s and they have been as fast as
SCSI disks in all my machines.

IPC, IPX, LX, SS2, SS5, SS10, SS20, Ultra1 and Ultra5 (as a secondary disk).

Huge fan.  The only box that has a real disk is the Ultra5 IDE to boot from.

-t

Todd Vernon
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Email: todd at toddvernon.com
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On Jun 27, 2024 at 2:38:41 PM, Alexander Jacocks via rescue <
rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:

> 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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