<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body 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 <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><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><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>rescue list - http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>