<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Hi Ken <br><br>I've used KingSpec IDE SSDs in an Ultra-10, and although it was functionally fine, the performance was horrible - awful jittery with frequent several-second pauses when even under merely moderate slow IDE load. Admittedly that was in 2014 before the SM2236 controller was inside 'em.<br><br>It appears that KingSpec (and similar low-cost far-east IDE SSD designs) are all devoid of an on-board RAM buffer.<br><br>As always, YMMV, but I personally would recommend using a well-known SATA SSD connected via a PATA-SATA adaptor. Every time.<br><br>- Mike</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">On 27 June 2024 17:35:39 BST, Lionel Peterson via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<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></blockquote></div></body></html>