<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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-Dave<br>
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ<br>
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