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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Asmitt on May 12, 2008, 09:37:03 PM

Title: flash memory IDE
Post by: Asmitt on May 12, 2008, 09:37:03 PM

Near the bottom of this page

http://mini-itx.com/store/default.asp?c=16#cfm

Industrial quality flash memory plugs directly into the IDE interface and acts as a hard drive ,from £15 for 128meg  3.5 and 2.5 models bootable etc .

Thoughts ?

Title: Re: flash memory IDE
Post by: pyrre on May 12, 2008, 09:54:26 PM

when are someone going to do that with SCSI II devices?

Title: Re: flash memory IDE
Post by: mfilos on May 12, 2008, 10:53:46 PM

tbh, I think it's a nice but expensive solution.
Dunno if they are 100% Solid State drives (like the ones that are sold in eBay and local stores - 2.5" SSD drives of 4,8,16,32GB) but I think if you can afford them, they are a good investment.

I also dunno if they have CF limited read/write cycles like CF cards have. SSD IDE and SATA drives have a MTBF of 140 years so I think it's a nice way to invest that your precious Amiga Data will be there for a long time to come :D

Personally if I could afford it I would have gone to 2.5" 16 or 32GB SSD :D

Cheers

Title: Re: flash memory IDE
Post by: koaftder on May 12, 2008, 11:00:58 PM

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pyrre wrote:
when are someone going to do that with SCSI II devices?

Amen!