Buffalo Launching SSDs with PATA Support

[jimmysmitty]

Wow. Its barley breaking my old PATA HDDs speeds.

And current SATA 3.0s hit 200MB/s+ in SSDs........

I see bankruptcy in their future.

 

[simple_inhibition]

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[simple_inhibition]

[citation][nom]tpi2007[/nom]I have a Media Center running with a Pentium 3 1 Ghz... with a Sata HDD... connected to a PCI Sata card.... believe me, it's a lot more cost effective, and if you decide to move the HDD into a new computer with SATA, you just have to plug it in. With an SSD with a PATA connector first you have to check whether your board still has the connector, and if it does you will have an ugly cable impending your airflow.However, that said, this DOES make sense for Laptops. If you have a Desktop however, it's just nonsense.[/citation]


i was being sarcastic 😛 and agree with you on all points. i could see where this might come in handy for a decent laptop with only PATA, but at $250 for 32gb, thats a hard pill to swallow

 

[simple_inhibition]

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disregard this post, my stinking cat walked across the keyboard =/

 

[zak_mckraken]

I agree that at this age, not having SATA is almost a crime. However, if for some reason you still have PATA and need to change your hard drive, I really don't see why you would go with SSD. Maintaining old technology is a (bad) thing, but pouring money in it is worse.

 

[ddt529]

I agree with most of the posters. This is a waste of R&D. A standard HDD should be good enough for any system using PATA. Older systems will bottleneck the performance of the SSD. Waste of $$$ in my opinion.

 

[mavroxur]

[citation][nom]ddt529[/nom]I agree with most of the posters. This is a waste of R&D. A standard HDD should be good enough for any system using PATA. Older systems will bottleneck the performance of the SSD. Waste of $$$ in my opinion.[/citation]



There's not much R&D in this device as opposed to the SATA version. You're simply changing the drive's interface. Best case they just replaced the controller on the drive's pcb with a parallel version.... worst case, they added a chip to go from SATA to PATA (like the JMicron JM20330) which is a really small TQFP chip. The flash drive was already built, that's the hard part. Changing how it communicates is the easy part relatively speaking.

 

[razor512]

UDMA 6 generally gets around 110-115MB/s

if the drive is not macing out that bandwidth then that means it is a very low end drive that has a ridiculous price and designed to just have the highest profit margin possible. They did this in hopes a few suckers would buy it in hopes of making their 500MHz machines run windows 7 better

 

[athreex]

[citation][nom]cekasone[/nom]If your computer doesn't have SATA its time to upgrade dude.[/citation]

No dude, apparently sata is outdated, you're way behind on the computer food chain. Upgrade to PATA is a must.