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

[Mark Benson]

I don't really get the discrepancy, unless it was a price thing. They are functionally very similar, the only major difference being the extras for Mac users on the BlueSCSI.

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> On 27 Jun 2024, at 21:49, Dave McGuire via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
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>  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.
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>                  -Dave
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>> 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
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>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 1:52 PM Dave McGuire via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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
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