First post, by Kahenraz
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- l33t
SSD in a Compaq LTE Elite (486DX2 75Mhz) was about 2MB/s max.
SSD in Panasonic Toughbook (PIII 700Mhz) was about 30 MB/s max.
It's great fun putting SSDs in these dinosaurs but I always feel bad that the HDD controller only goes so fast.
My 486 is rocking a 16GB SD card where it was normally limited to 504MB max. Got around this with a BIOS extender. The PIII came with a 20GB drive, now rocking a 128GB SSD. 🤣
I'd put a real SSD in the 486 but the transfer speed is so slow at a class 10 SD card is more than enough.
Access times improved astronomically in comparison to rotating media and the new drives completely silent too.