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A flash card is solid-state. I think it qualifies.
by ams6110 9y ago
A flash card is solid-state. I think it qualifies.
- Dylan16807 9y agoThere are certain implications of performance for "SSD". It's possible for removable flash storage to be responsive, but there are a lot of cards out there that can't even beat a hard drive's IOPS. Get it up to four digits and the word SSD becomes viable.
- 13of40 9y agoUSB 2.0 should be almost 100 times faster than the original IDE interface, so there would effectively be no difference between using an IDE->Flash adapter versus an IDE->SSD adapter. On the other hand, if you wanted to be clever, I bet you could emulate the whole 5150 faster-than-life on the ARM cores on the SSD, and just use the old hardware as a screen and keyboard.
- Dylan16807 9y agoIt's not about the interface. I have two USB 2.0 flash drives sitting here where copying a folder of small files will take seconds on one and minutes on the other. They were bought around the same time and have similar performance for bulk data. If something is labeled "SSD" then you can have confidence it won't have a completely trash controller chip. Otherwise you can get something that, while solid state, performs worse than even an ancient hard drive.
- fit2rule 9y agoI think you are doing a "brand split" - i.e. the terminology has been co-opted by branding to mean something, almost, what it used to mean. SSD as a "consumer label" means really fast upgrade to a modern PC, one could argue. But solid-state-disks are a subject as old as the hills, and the phrase really doesn't necessarily mean performance, at all. It'd be better to describe it as "no-moving-parts storage", I suppose - less "brand theft" going on.
- DKnoll 9y agoArguably a SATA SSD is removable flash storage as well. ;)
- raverbashing 9y agoIt's a PC XT, any CF should run circles around it