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I did some benchmarking of ZuluSCSI RP2040’s and they have been as fast as SCSI disks in all my machines.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">IPC, IPX, LX, SS2, SS5, SS10, SS20, Ultra1 and Ultra5 (as a secondary disk).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Huge fan. The only box that has a real disk is the Ultra5 IDE to boot from.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-t</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:medium;margin-top:0px"><div style="margin-top:0px;font-weight:bold"><div style="margin-top:0px"><div style="margin-top:0px"><div style="margin-top:0px"><font style="font-size:14px">Todd Vernon</font></div><div style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px"><font style="font-size:13px">Entrepreneur | Investor</font></div><div style="font-weight:400;font-size:13px;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(80,0,80)">Email: <a href="mailto:todd@toddvernon.com" target="_blank">todd@toddvernon.com</a></div><div style="font-weight:400;font-size:13px;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(80,0,80)">LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddvernon/" target="_blank">toddvernon</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Jun 27, 2024 at 2:38:41 PM, Alexander Jacocks via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>- Alex<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 1:52 PM Dave McGuire 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">On June 27, 2024 12:37:26 PM Lionel Peterson via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org" target="_blank">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> 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?<br>
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> Yes, there are - I never knew about them!<br>
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> Apparently you can just go on eBay or Amazon and pickup a brand new IDE SSD, like this one:<br>
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> KingSpec 32GB 2.5 inch PATA/IDE SSD, MLC Flash SM2236 Controller Internal Solid State Disk<br>
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> <a href="https://a.co/d/07g9igRs" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://a.co/d/07g9igRs</a><br>
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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?<br>
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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.<br>
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I've been running something similar to that in a Sun Fire V100 for many years. Works great.<br>
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