On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Sadly more likely is that they'll just dry up and disappear, because they'll > stop making them. The IDE-> SATA transition hit just as these were coming to > market, so only the very early iterations had IDE electronics.
And my understanding is that the "very early iterations" of the SSDs were much less special. What has made SSDs more attractive recently has been not only the cost coming (somewhat) down, but improvements in the tech and firmware to improve the performance and make it more consistent 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 count over on newegg they offer around 108 SATA drives versus about 10 PATA. Of those 10 PATA drives, the largest capacity offered was 500GB. And it is much more likely that a new iCore motherboard will drop that legacy PATA connector completely. (FWIW, both PATA and SATA are "IDE". A technical distinction that means less and less as common usage of "IDE" has twisted it into a synonym for PATA. Oh, well.) -irrational john -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
