[HECnet] SSD for Vax

[Mark Wickens]

On 10/10/2013 08:17, Daniel Soderstrom wrote:
Has anyone tries this? Running my Vaxstation non-stop reminds me how much noise these old drives make.

Has anyone tried SSD drives? Must be good for the PSU it terms of heat and current draw.

Daniel

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There has been very little success with IDE to SCSI converters on this age of machine.
Remember also that even 4000/90 vintage VAXstations generally have an upper limit of 18GB.

I don't recall anyone even getting an IDE drive to work, let alone an SSD.

Would love to be proved wrong however! I'm surprised someone hasn't written a software based SCSI drive emulator the same way that you get floppy emulators.

Consider running the machine diskless, booted off the network with off-node disks.

Mark

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