<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Yes, there are - I never knew about them!</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Apparently you can just go on eBay or Amazon and pickup a brand new IDE SSD, like this one:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">KingSpec 32GB 2.5 inch PATA/IDE SSD, MLC Flash SM2236 Controller Internal Solid State Disk</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><a href="https://a.co/d/07g9igRs" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">https://a.co/d/07g9igRs</a><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">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 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I don't have any ide-based workstations, but boy if I did, I think I'd be trying this out.</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Ken</div></body></html>