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

[Dave McGuire]

  I was not at all impressed with BlueSCSI.  I sold it the same day it arrived.  I am currently running about a dozen ZuluSCSIs.  They are fantastic.

                  -Dave

On June 27, 2024 4:38:55 PM Alexander Jacocks <jjacocks at gmail.com> 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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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA