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#315566 - 26/10/2008 18:09 Re: SSD hard drives in empeg? [Re: mlord]
tman
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Originally Posted By: mlord
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the "cheap" ones don't seem to have the correct plug


What plug do they have, then?

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#315590 - 27/10/2008 15:49 Re: SSD hard drives in empeg? [Re: tman]
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$179 for a 64GB PATA SSD seems pretty reasonable. I think once the price comes down a bit more, I will bite on two of them.

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#317667 - 31/12/2008 20:46 Re: SSD hard drives in empeg? [Re: robricc]
101
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Sorry to dig this up, but I had been thinking about going this route for sometime. Just ordered a 64 GB transcend off of the egg, will post back how it goes.
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#317671 - 01/01/2009 09:04 Re: SSD hard drives in empeg? [Re: 101]
Major_Sarcasm
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See this thread. The 64 GB ones might not be affected, but just a heads up on Transcend SSDs.
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#320223 - 10/03/2009 21:07 Re: SSD hard drives in empeg? [Re: Major_Sarcasm]
estocks
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ARISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!

What is the current thinking, do we recommend SSD HDD or CF? My HDD just died frown I'd like to get something with a -10C operating temperature.
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#320242 - 11/03/2009 12:25 Re: SSD hard drives in empeg? [Re: estocks]
mlord
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I recommend CF, simply because they're cheap and they work.

2.5" PATA SSDs seem trickier to find, but if you can get them for not much money, then they are even better (much faster writing, for tune uploads).

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#320267 - 11/03/2009 20:09 Re: SSD hard drives in empeg? [Re: mlord]
Aragon
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Registered: 17/05/2002
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At the price of those 64 GB Transcend SSDs, they're definitely worth a try I'd say. Let us know how you get along!

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#322472 - 21/05/2009 14:12 Re: SSD hard drives in empeg? [Re: drakino]
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Originally Posted By: drakino

It's amazing to look back and see exactly how far things have progressed. I do remember being slightly concerned the empeg didn't have 100Mbit when I ordered my Mark 2 unit, but that was only because I had spent the extra money to ensure I had a 100MBit switch on a portion of my home network. And now, a good portion of people can get broadband that would saturate a 10Mbit connection and most modern routers are making the jump from 100Mbit to 1Gbit.


(ramble)

Every time I take out my Atari800 (or 130xe) and play Star Raiders, I'm also impressed with what one could write in 4KB of space to run on a 1.89MHz computer.

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Indeeeeed. My friend and I used to consider how our microwave ovens were 2.485GHz and how obscenely awesome it would be to clock a 6502 at 2.485Ghz!! Zooom!

Yea... hahaha

What's really funny is on OpenCores.org, someone replicated one of the Apple computers (I think a ][+ or maybe a //e) into an FPGA.

Awesome. Atari would be probably be a little/lot harder because of all of it's support chips that handled things that were loaded onto the CPU's of the Apples. (One of the reasons Atari's were so technically superior...)

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#323311 - 14/06/2009 18:09 Re: SSD hard drives in empeg? [Re: benjammin]
Bill Walker
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Registered: 24/08/2000
Posts: 62
Loc: NZ
Anyone tried one of these:

http://www.pcssl.co.nz/productdetails.aspx?cmd=697-63



Also has anyone tried and SDHC to CF adapter in the Empeg?


Edited by Bill Walker (14/06/2009 18:26)
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#323312 - 14/06/2009 18:42 Re: SSD hard drives in empeg? [Re: Bill Walker]
wfaulk
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People have certainly used CF-to-IDE adapters in the empeg, myself included. I can't come up with a great reason to use that one in the empeg. Its great feature is that it combines master and slave IDE devices into a single unit, which is awesome for laptops, but the empeg has enough space for both, and that form factor would make it a little awkward to mount.
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#323314 - 14/06/2009 19:01 Re: SSD hard drives in empeg? [Re: wfaulk]
Bill Walker
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So I should probably buy a pair of these then:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CF-to-IDE-44-Pin-Hard-Drive-Adapter-bootable-LAPTOP-K03_W0QQitemZ280334940324QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCA_Cables_Adapters?hash=item414543b8a4&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14.l1262&_trkparms=|301%3A0|293%3A2|294%3A30

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#323315 - 14/06/2009 19:17 Re: SSD hard drives in empeg? [Re: Bill Walker]
wfaulk
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Without doing any research, yeah, they should work fine, and they certainly are cheap. Again, though, they'll be slightly awkward to mount, because of the lack of mounting holes. Some double-sided tape should work okay, though.
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#323409 - 17/06/2009 00:32 Re: SSD hard drives in empeg? [Re: Bill Walker]
gbeer
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I have one similar to that. All you need are a couple of spacers.

edit: and to drill a couple holes. I found turning the unit sideways and refolding the cable worked best. This allowed placing the unit so the cf's were removable.

edit2: took a while searching but this post has a pic attached of my dual cf adaptor mounted.



Edited by gbeer (17/06/2009 00:55)
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#323412 - 17/06/2009 01:21 Re: SSD hard drives in empeg? [Re: gbeer]
Bill Walker
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Cool ;-)
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#324912 - 06/08/2009 10:26 Re: SSD hard drives in empeg? [Re: Bill Walker]
Aragon
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