<div dir="ltr"><div>I, too, use msata -> ide adapters in vintage equipment. However, I don't agree that it's a waste.</div><div><br></div><div>There are a couple of reasons that I feel this way:<br></div><div>1) lower power draw and heat generation is always good for vintage electronics<br></div><div>2) lower access time _feels_ fast, even with low max transfer rate</div><div><br></div><div>So, all my vintage laptops, at this point, use ssd/flash media of some kind. This is especially true on my scsi-based portables, where the very small total production of 8-bit serial scsi 2.5" disks limits the number of original units available, and those original disks were not the most reliable, even when new.</div><div><br></div><div>- Alex<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 12:49\u202fPM Mark Benson via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">The cheapest and easiest way to put SSDs in an IDE system, at least for systems with Ultra ATA (IDE & EIDE can be a bit patchy) is using a PATA to MSATA or PATA to m.2 SATA adapter. Typically these are 2.5" size. I've used them in a lot of Powerbooks, as well as G3 and G4 Power Macs via 2.5" to 3.5" adapters.<div><br></div><div>Unless you are out of other options it's a bit of a waste in a 486 though.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 27 Jun 2024, at 17:37, Lionel Peterson via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org" target="_blank">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff<div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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?</span><div><br></div><div>Yes, there are - I never knew about them!</div><div><br></div><div>Apparently you can just go on eBay or Amazon and pickup a brand new IDE SSD, like this one:</div><div><br></div><div>KingSpec 32GB 2.5 inch PATA/IDE SSD, MLC Flash SM2236 Controller Internal Solid State Disk</div><div><br></div><a href="https://a.co/d/07g9igRs" target="_blank">https://a.co/d/07g9igRs</a><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>I don't have any ide-based workstations, but boy if I did, I think I'd be trying this out.</div><br></div><br id="m_-9146068081649597890lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Ken</div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>rescue list - <a href="http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org" target="_blank">http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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