Not to rain on the parade, but an UW SCSI HDD can easily saturated the Cyberstorm's bus. So an SSD will be no faster; in fact tests done converting the SCSI to SATA shows an impressive bottleneck.
Now I use a $89 128GB OCZ SSD in my Amy as a small (space is tight in there) backup drive for my 146GB Maxtor 15K U320, but it hangs off a sil3114ide card on my Mediator under OS 4.1
No rain here. I would like to see some numbers on that as I cannot test for myself since my SCSI-to-SATA is narrow. I will, however, be able to test on my 2000 with Blizzard 2060 against the installed Seagate 4GB (though it might be an IBM or Western Digital 9GB, I cannot recall which.)
I just want a
QUIET drive. The SSD will be new, have longevity and reliability, produce less heat, and be stable. The SCSI drives, while fairly sturdy (I have a couple of IBM 36GB which are 12 years-old and other than getter louder every year, they show no errors or other signs of deterioration) are just too old for my tastes or too expensive for newer drives.
I picked up a narrow SCSI-to-SATA adapter for $129 and a 64GB SSD for $30. These will go in a SparcStation 20 with dual 100MHz ROSS UltraSparcs. On an identical test machine the performance difference was marked and perceptible. I hope to see similar results from the 2000.
