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USB 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 versu
by 13of40 9y ago
USB 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.