Does anyone have any recommendations for moderately priced SSD's
(Solid State Drives)? I'm looking for IDE and probably 2.5", since
then I could use it in a laptop or a desktop machine (with an
adapter).
8 GB would probably be too small, but I think I can get away with
using something not that muc
Hi!
I’m thinking about upgrading my G4 Cube with a 128 GB SSD.
THE LONG STORY
It is very silent already because I’ve removed the /very/ /very/ /loud/
original 3.5″ HDD. I did this because I was also removing the broken optical
drive and decided to use the free space for a 2.5″ SATA HDD. I use
I’m using a 1GB compact flash card as a hard drive in a powerbook
1400, in an adapter (CF->IDE) the size of a 2.5" drive. You could do
the same with a 16GB card, but make sure the speed is high enough for
you. The adapter costs about 15$.
There have been some posts on this topic here, also about u
GB one for $135
<http://tinyurl.com/84nuy6>
But "SSD" and "Moderately Priced" are not things that go with each
other, even dipped in chocolate and smeared with peanut butter.
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Institut
At 10:24 AM -0800 1/27/2010, Paul wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendations for moderately priced SSD's
(Solid State Drives)? I'm looking for IDE and probably 2.5", since
then I could use it in a laptop or a desktop machine (with an
adapter).
8 GB would probably be too small, but I think I can
If it's going to be the boot disk, I heard that flash memory connected
to an adapter may not be suitable for the task. The full-blown SSD
drives are made with hard drive type use in mind.
Because of the timing of all this, it seems like SSD's will become
modestly priced after SATA ha
On Jan 30, 2010, at 12:12 AM, Ed Grey wrote:
Because of the timing of all this, it seems like SSD's will become
modestly priced after SATA has replaced IDE, and so the only IDE SSD
drives available in the not too distant future will be older models.
This is true today.
But then th
as the disk filled up over time.
I would suggest that instead of looking for a PATA SSD you consider
using a PATA to SATA adapter with a newer SATA SSD.
> it seems like SSD's will become modestly
> priced after SATA has replaced IDE
FWIW, SATA has already replaced PATA. Doing a quick
And the same thing seems to have happened at about the same time with
the change from PCI to PCIe.
Are there any SSD's that plug into a PCI slot? That would be very
handy for a desktop machine, and would avoid taking a hard drive
connector. I've seen PCIe, but I don't remember whether or not I've
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Ed Grey wrote:
> Are there any SSD's that plug into a PCI slot? That would be very
> handy for a desktop machine, and would avoid taking a hard drive
> connector. I've seen PCIe, but I don't remember whether or not I've
> seen any PCI.
I think what you're asking i
On Jan 31, 10:33 am, iJohn wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Ed Grey wrote:
> > Are there any SSD's that plug into a PCI slot? That would be very
> > handy for a desktop machine, and would avoid taking a hard drive
> > connector. I've seen PCIe, but I don't remember whether or not I've
>
On Feb 1, 2010, at 3:24 AM, Ed Grey wrote:
On Jan 31, 10:33 am, iJohn wrote:
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Ed Grey wrote:
Are there any SSD's that plug into a PCI slot? That would be very
handy for a desktop machine, and would avoid taking a hard drive
connector. I've seen PCIe, but I do
hich was a
hard drive mounted on an ISA card...we had one in the very first "PC-
Compatible" I ever worked on, way back in 1986 or so...googling that
lead to this:
<http://www.ramsan.com/products/ramsan-20.htm> 450 gig SSD storage on
a PCIe card.
They don't list price
On Feb 3, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Len Gerstel wrote:
On Feb 1, 2010, at 3:24 AM, Ed Grey wrote:
On Jan 31, 10:33 am, iJohn wrote:
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Ed Grey wrote:
Are there any SSD's that plug into a PCI slot? That would be very
handy for a desktop machine, and would avoid takin
On Feb 3, 2010, at 11:09 PM, Kasey Smith wrote:
On Feb 3, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Len Gerstel wrote:
On Feb 1, 2010, at 3:24 AM, Ed Grey wrote:
On Jan 31, 10:33 am, iJohn wrote:
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Ed Grey wrote:
Are there any SSD's that plug into a PCI slot? That would be very
On Feb 3, 2010, at 9:18 PM, Len Gerstel wrote:
On Feb 3, 2010, at 11:09 PM, Kasey Smith wrote:
On Feb 3, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Len Gerstel wrote:
On Feb 1, 2010, at 3:24 AM, Ed Grey wrote:
Here is the closest I could semi-quickly find. It is for 2.5"
pata (not sata). There may be a sata v
On Feb 3, 2010, at 11:29 PM, Kasey Smith wrote:
*snip*
Re read the specs.
Mac Compatibility
Power Mac G4 (all models except Cube and Mirrored Drive Doors)
Power Mac G5 (with PCI or PCI-X slots)
Mac OS® X Version 10.5, 10.4, or 10.3
Don't know why it does not support the MDD
Len
Oops,
On 2/3/10 11:14 PM, Robert Towsley wrote:
On Feb 3, 2010, at 11:29 PM, Kasey Smith wrote:
*snip*
Re read the specs.
Mac Compatibility
Power Mac G4 (all models except Cube and Mirrored Drive Doors)
Power Mac G5 (with PCI or PCI-X slots)
Mac OS® X Version 10.5, 10.4, or 10.3
Don't know why
On Feb 4, 2010, at 12:14 AM, Robert Towsley wrote:
On Feb 3, 2010, at 11:29 PM, Kasey Smith wrote:
*snip*
Re read the specs.
Mac Compatibility
Power Mac G4 (all models except Cube and Mirrored Drive Doors)
Power Mac G5 (with PCI or PCI-X slots)
Mac OS® X Version 10.5, 10.4, or 10.3
Do
I bet you were thinking of the beige G3, Robert. I have one here
thats the infamous all-in-one and its horrible on OSX, so i keep it
running OS9.
On Feb 4, 2010, at 12:30 AM, Clark Martin wrote:
On 2/3/10 11:14 PM, Robert Towsley wrote:
Probably because G3's do not natively support anything
a PCI card that needed a standard laptop hard drive
to be operational. I meant an SSD drive that comes on a PCI card,
rather than the usual SSD that plugs in like a hard drive.
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On Feb 4, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Ed Grey wrote:
I meant an SSD drive that comes on a PCI card.
Here:
<http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad4cfprj.asp>
<http://www.laurontech.com/pcissd.html>
<http://www.devhardware.com/c/a/Storage-Devices/CENATEK-Rocket-Drive-S
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Ed Grey wrote:
>
>> I meant an SSD drive that comes on a PCI card.
>
> Here:
> <http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad4cfprj.asp>
> <http://www.la
idn't mean a PCI card that needed a standard laptop hard drive
to be operational. I meant an SSD drive that comes on a PCI card,
rather than the usual SSD that plugs in like a hard drive.
So what you are looking for is a pci card that has ram built in.
These exist and are not for the faint
My apologies. Apparently I didn't click through to the second of the
three links in the previous post so I was wrong about what it leads
to.
http://www.laurontech.com/pcissd.html
It appears to be what you said you were looking for, a PCI card with
flash modules on it. However it also seems to onl
On Feb 4, 2010, at 3:18 PM, John Martz wrote:
If you're just looking to improve performance pretty much any recent
SATA drive that uses high bit density platters and perpendicular
recording will probably meet your needs and for less money than you'd
pay for a (lower capacity SSD
On Feb 3, 2010, at 8:50 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
<http://www.ramsan.com/products/ramsan-20.htm> 450 gig SSD storage
on a PCIe card.
They don't list prices...you have to request a quote, for grins and
giggles I did, (and at the cost of junk phone calls! you all have no
in fact I’ve never noticed a problem with the
current lower speed.
Of course, your situation is different: you want at least 8GB, your
computer is faster probably, and you may be wanting to get an SSD for
speed reasons. (And maybe you have more money to spend on this :-) My
reason was that I needed
Hard drives running off of bus slots ? PCI hard drive interface? Hmm, don't
remember any like that. ISA or Zorro though. Think I have a Zorro card
interface in the 'pile".
But PCI to HD ?
Someone fire up the "Wayback " machine.
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On Feb 4, 3:19 pm, Len Gerstel wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Ed Grey wrote:
>
>>I meant an SSD drive that comes on a PCI card, rather than the usual SSD that
>>plugs in like a hard drive.
>
> So what you are looking for is a pci card that has ram built in.
On Feb 8, 2010, at 1:29 AM, Ed Grey wrote:
What does SSD have to do with volatile RAM? I don't know how I could
have been more direct and explicit about what I was looking for.
SSD is the acronym for "Solid State Drive". The first generation of
SSDs used volatile RAM as the
That's what makes computers so much "fun" - the incredible amount of
hairsplitting and detail-poking necessary to do what used to require
just a pencil and paper.
I suppose for that .01% of the population that knows that SSD used to
use volatile RAM (and of course someone here wi
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Ed Grey wrote:
> That's what makes computers so much "fun" - the incredible amount of
> hairsplitting and detail-poking necessary to do what used to require
> just a pencil and paper.
>
> I suppose for that .01% of the population tha
I'm not really talking about $500 - or $15,000 - SSD's. What's wrong
with putting a $100 SSD into a $200 laptop, especially when that SSD
can be reused in a future machine? (Or putting a $200 SSD into a $500
G5, for that matter?) And especially if it lowers your stress level
throug
I'm not really talking about $500 - or $15,000 - SSD's. What's wrong
with putting a $100 SSD into a $200 laptop, especially when that SSD
can be reused in a future machine? (Or putting a $200 SSD into a $500
G5, for that matter?) And especially if it lowers your stress level
throug
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:53 AM, Ed Grey wrote:
> What's wrong
> with putting a $100 SSD into a $200 laptop, especially when that SSD
> can be reused in a future machine?
>
A quick Google search for $ 100.00 SSDs did not even find any used ones of
low capacity.
> I con
> THE SHORT STORY &
> THE QUESTION
>
> Has anybody here experience with using a SSD on an OS that doesn___t know the
> TRIM command?
It will work fine, it just will gradually get sluggish. However, some
controllers (Sandforce) don't need to use TRIM; OWC sells these. The
jimbo
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On Nov 12, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>> THE SHORT STORY &
>> THE QUESTION
>>
>> Has anybody here experience with using a SSD on an OS that doesn___t know
>> the
>> TRIM command?
>
> It will work fine,
used cube for fun...
>
> -doc jimbo
>
> Sent from my mobile device.
>
> On Nov 12, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>
> >> THE SHORT STORY &
> >> THE QUESTION
> >>
> >> Has anybody here experience with using a SSD on an OS that doesn_
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Subject: Re: SSD?
Date:Monday, 12. November 2012
From:Cameron Kaiser
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> > Has anybody here experience with using a SSD on an OS that doesn’t know
> > the TRIM command?
>
> It will work
anyone had success putting an SSD in a G5 and getting the maximum speed out
of it? issues i'm aware of include the native SATA-1 interface, which will
limit speed to a theoretical max of 187.5 MB/s, regardless of how fast the
SSD itself is. the way around that is to use an expansion slo
Trim is outside the realm of possibility. Not sure If doing an erase free space
procedure monthly or so would help a bit. Modern drive "garbage collection" is
pretty good. Anybody got any benchmarks? I picked up a velociraptor to use in
an old G4 rather than try to work through
possibility. Not
sure If doing an erase free space procedure
monthly or so would help a bit. Modern drive
"garbage collection" is pretty good. Anybody got
any benchmarks? I picked up a velociraptor to
use in an old G4 rather than try to work through SSD issues.
Sent from my mobile d
Hello everyone,
As the subject line says, I'm wondering if anyone has installed an SSD in their
G4? If so, would you please offer recommendations and comments on how it
performs?
Thanks,
Bill
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I have used an SSD in my Quicksilver for at least a year, to great
satisfaction. It's not night-and-day, but definitely worth while ( the system
has slower bus and port speeds, so the speed up is not felt as radically as
with newer systems). It does boost the overall performance of the s
Hello G-Group!
I just wanted to report an issue I just experienced with my Power Mac
G5, original model from 2003. I removed two genuine Apple 160 GB hard
disk drives (one was actually from a Late-2005), and replaced it with a
single 2.5 inch SATA SSD, 1 TB, SanDisk Ultra 3D.
Since I had wanted
> As the subject line says, I'm wondering if anyone has installed an SSD in
> their G4? If so, would you please offer recommendations and comments on
> how it performs?
2.5" SATA to PATA converters certainly exist (find them on eBay), but how
would one provide
I cannot speak specifically for the Macintosh side of things however it would
appear that TRIM is capable of being passed through IDE. This happens to be
through IDE to an MSATA style SSD. I would imagine that this would translate
roughly the same in using a program to issue a trim command to
Am 2016-04-06 um 17:57 schrieb peterh...@cruzio.com:
As the subject line says, I'm wondering if anyone has installed an SSD in
their G4? If so, would you please offer recommendations and comments on
how it performs?
2.5" SATA to PATA converters certainly exist (find them on eBay
> You can use any of the offered sizes, but only the first 120 or so GB will
> be seen by the Quicksilver, (the drive can always later be used in another
> machine at full capacity).
137,000 MB is the limit for an early QS.
Late QSes have this limit removed in hardware.
"-02" IDE chip has the f
> 137,000 MB is the limit for an early QS.
Oops ... the limit is 131,072 MB, computed as follows: 128 megabytes
(where a "megabyte" is really 1024-based, and not 1000-based) = 131,072
MB.
The problem is: the early QSes support only a 24-bit LBA size, whereas
late QSes support a 48-bit LBA. The d
e of the
drive size on the ATA bus, not just volumes. In any case I eventually mounted
the SSD in an external FW bay and boot/operate from that, as the FW connection
is at least as fast if not faster and also not subject to that size limit.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nova-32GB-SSD-Rebate-Netbook,10697.html#xtor=RSS-181
I saw this bargain on Tom's Hardware, but I haven't found any adapter
that would allow me to put one of these in an old PowerBook with PATA
(or is it PITA?) interface. It would have to be quite s
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nova-32GB-SSD-Rebate-Netbook,10697.html#xtor=RSS-181
I saw this bargain on Tom's Hardware, but I haven't found any adapter
that would allow me to put one of these in an old PowerBook with PATA
(or is it PITA?) interface. It would have to be quite slim.
Has
Are there PCI SATA adapter cards that would let you boot from this on,
say, a G4 Digital Audio? That would be very sweet.
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Is there such a thing as a PCI-X card with onboard SSD?
Would that be preferable or not vs. SATA in my G5 dual cpu?
Any reason to avoid SSD for my configuration?
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On April 30 2020, 21:32, GLT wrote:
> Is there such a thing as a PCI-X card with onboard SSD? Would that be
> preferable or not vs. SATA in my G5 dual cpu? Any reason to avoid SSD
> for my configuration?
I doubt that there are drivers available for NVMe. And if the PCI-X card
is a SATA c
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