SSD - a good idea?

Hi

Would it be sensible to fit an SSD to an Iyonix?

RISC OS shouldn’t wear one too much, especially if !scrap is in RAM (memphis).

The improved access time should be a big improvement.

The extra speed probably wouldn’t help on current hardware.

Thanks

Remember that Iyo doesn’t have SATA, and there are very few IDE SSDs (and the odd one I’ve seen has been old with major limitations/problems).

Writing performance will suffer over time because RISC OS does not support TRIM at this moment. As far as I know.

There are IDE to SATA adaptors but non of the seven we tried worked:-(

Remember that Iyo doesn’t have SATA

Mine does. :)

Writing performance will suffer over time because RISC OS does not support TRIM

But it shouldn’t be anything like as bad a under windows (XP) due to the far lower amount of disk writes.

There are IDE to SATA adaptors but non of the seven we tried worked:-(

I have one that works, but I have another similar looking one that doesn’t.

I want to find a dual adapter (one sata drive as master, one as slave.) Ideally.

I now have a 60GB ocz vertex plus running in my Iyonix.

Seems to load faster (especially email), but not dramatically so, also quieter.

Worthwhile I think, because I wanted to go to 2.5" drives anyway.

I have a Samsung 8GB CompactFlash card in a CF-IDE adaptor in my Risc PC. It’s a lot quicker than the 13GB hard drive it replaced… (in terms of latency anyway, the RPC’s IDE interface is glacially slow anyway). The CF card is good for 33MHz operation (I got a bit short of 33MB/s on a Linux machine), though laptop PCMCIA slots tend not to do that. I tried putting it in a UDMA133 IDE-USB adaptor and setting the pin to indicate an 80 pin cable, but didn’t get any faster than 33MB/s to Linux (possibly a USB limitation, now I think of it). Might be worth trying in an Iyonix perhaps?

“There are IDE to SATA adaptors but non of the seven we tried worked:-(”
The motherboard one I tried didn’t work, but the wide one that plugs onto the back of the sata drive is OK. It may restrict you to one drive per IDE channel though. I think Steffen Huber has had success with SATA DVD drives with this
style of adapter also.

Jess and Ronald can you give the make and model number of the IDE – SATA adaptors that work?
Ronald→ Most of the units we tried pluged onto the back of the sata drive.
I’ll ask Steffen about his, though as I know he bought it about five years ago it may not be available still :-(

It’d be handy to list them at Cortex-A8 hardware compatibility list too.

“Jess and Ronald can you give the make and model number of the IDE – SATA adaptors that work?”
I will give you exact details when I find it, I think this was my source, and
it may well be the same card.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/computers/components/other/auction-457171394.htm
I would be suspicious of the sata drive when seven types failed, The drive I used was a Toshiba 120GB 2.5.
Trevor- we are talking about IDE -SATA adapters, for the Beagle etc you would use USB-SATA

OK I’ve found my adapter and at first glance it is the same, but they have revised the circuit board slightly. The components are in the same position and orientation. I quickly looked around ebay and didn’t see one identical to mine.
They do have solder pads for master/slave so possibly you could rig them in the normal IDE fashion.

I am using an USB to SATA & PATA Combo Bridge: makes the problem for powering also a lot easier :)

we are talking about IDE -SATA adapters

Of course – sorry. Nevertheless, such adapters could always be listed on a brand new page. That way, people wouldn’t be duplicating testing of previously tried adapters. (And there’s also the riscos.info wiki, if such a list isn’t deemed appropriate for the ROOL one.)