On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 4, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Ed Grey wrote: > >> I meant an SSD drive that comes on a PCI card. > > Here: > <http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad4cfprj.asp> > <http://www.laurontech.com/pcissd.html> > <http://www.devhardware.com/c/a/Storage-Devices/CENATEK-Rocket-Drive-SSD/> >
The addonics device allows you to use a compact flash card inserted directly into the PCI card. However this is NOT what most people are thinking of when they talk about adding a SSD disk to their system. Usually I associate compact flash with USB 2 throughput speeds. Maybe 30-40 MB/s ... probably less. Depends on how much you want to pay. The other links are to a PCI card which uses SDRAM memory (PC133?) to mimic a hard drive. I'm not sure it would even work in a Mac and unless it comes with a battery, anything stored in its (small) amount of RAM would vanish when the power goes off. Of course, that device was apparently sold back in 2003 so I'm not even sure it's available any longer. Maybe it would help if you stated once again why you think you want an SSD drive and, more importantly, what machines you want to use it in. First I thought you were asking how to install an SSD drive in an older (PATA) laptop. But then somehow a PCI adapter crept into the discussion. If you're just looking to improve performance pretty much any recent SATA drive that uses high bit density platters and perpendicular recording will probably meet your needs and for less money than you'd pay for a (lower capacity SSD). This is assuming you're putting it into a desktop and can use a PATA to SATA adapter. (They tend to be inexpensive these days). Depending on how old your hardware is, your internal bus bandwidth may be less than that of a drive you might purchase. In other words, the bottleneck for your drive speed may be in your motherboard components, not the drive itself. -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
