IDE to ssd ?

colly

colly

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At work the litho press I run uses ide drives. The press is 11 years old this year and we need backup drives for it.
Is there such a thing of Ide to sata for ssd ? The drives that are in there are WD400bb and it uses 2 drives.
Any ideas guys
Thanks
 
Thanks I'll advise them. Anyone had any experience with these ? will the OS have any issues or will it just pick it up as a std hard drive ? based on windows NT
 
You can get pata/ide ssd's they are not of the same great performance spec we are used to today, however better than a old ide for access times etc.. They are a bit pricey too for the MB given. I guess they are made for niech situations such as yours.
 
colly said:
M600 16page are you a fellow printer
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Sort of, small scale SRA3 Digital printing on plastic mainly. :)

But we used to out source some jobs to larger local printers which had some large off-set printers. And I'm sure they had a similar issue, but were able to find a sata card that worked on their press, I know it wasn't a M600. :/

Unfortunately they closed down a few years ago. :<

I guess if that press has a pci slot going spare it may be feasible.
 
I tried one of the ide-sata converters without success ages ago, and while struggling with it I found a lot of posts reporting the same experience. You might get one that works but it could be hit and miss.
Another alternative is to look for ide flash modules or 'disk on module' but I'm not sure if anyone produces them as big as 40GB.
 
Thanks for all advice on this. They are going to get the manufacture in to have a look think they are quoting £1500
I'll keep you all updated what they do but might be a while lol
 
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