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

[Mike Spooner]

Hi Ken 

I've used KingSpec IDE SSDs in an Ultra-10, and although it was functionally fine, the performance was horrible - awful jittery with frequent several-second pauses when even under merely moderate slow IDE load. Admittedly that was in 2014 before the SM2236 controller was inside 'em.

It appears that KingSpec (and similar low-cost far-east IDE SSD designs) are all devoid of an on-board RAM buffer.

As always, YMMV, but I personally would recommend using a well-known SATA SSD connected via a PATA-SATA adaptor. Every time.

- Mike

On 27 June 2024 17:35:39 BST, 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.
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>
>Ken
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