Post B5K1HTIxI4l2KYOfpY by hp@mastodon.tmm.cx
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 (DIR) Post #B5JyL4mi67wtZwLFcu by hp@mastodon.tmm.cx
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       Hey fellow #retrocomputing kids. In my quest to make the very bestest #PATA (#IDE) emulation device there's some tradeoffs to be made. The device would allow you to emulate up to two PATA devices as once. Any combination of HDD/CDROM/ZIP maybe more.Listed speeds are of course dependent on what you spend on the actual backing storage :) The 128mb card you got for free in "my first digital camera" is going to be slow :PWould you prefer, (ordered by device cost. cheapest first.)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5JyL5Kk3bAfHUGQfg by KeyJ@mastodon.gamedev.place
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       @hp Anything SD card based is probably fine. It would be nice to have the full ~100 MB/s of UHS-1 at your disposal, but we're talking about old computers here; they'd probably be more than happy with 33 MB/s already.-1 vote for M.2 (SATA). This was a rather short-lived standard, and it's very hard to get such SSDs nowadays.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5JyL5iUdIAaT9NOgy by hp@mastodon.tmm.cx
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       @KeyJ Yeah, that makes sense. SATA M.2 drives are still pretty plentiful though. You're probably thinking of MSATA, that's pretty niche now.But mainstream brands still make M.2 SATA ssds today.The SD storage at those same speeds is more expensive due to extra component costs. SD at UHS-II and above is really super duper finnicky compared to M.2 SATA :)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5JyL5vxpCwf8vg9gm by KeyJ@mastodon.gamedev.place
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       @hp I just asked a price comparison site for all SSDs and SD cards released in the past two years, and it came up with the following numbers of different models:430x M.2 NVMe320x microSDXC205x full-size SDXC140x 2.5" SATA  10x M.2 SATA    6x mSATASo, I'd say that M.2 SATA is also quickly becoming obsolete.I 100% agree about UHS-II though; there's no point in implementing this, also because this type of cards is rather rare. (Only 20% of SD cards in my quick survey support it.)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5JyL6952RR9nbod8K by domi@donotsta.re
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       @KeyJ @hp > So, I’d say that M.2 SATA is also quickly becoming obsolete.you do realize that SSD designs have such a long shelf life that sorting by “last two years” doesn’t really tell you the whole picture, especially given how we’re in a DRAM crisis (which may influence the amount of models released)?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5K1HT5U69yxem5upk by KeyJ@mastodon.gamedev.place
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       @domi @hp I do realize that; however, this kind of metric gives a trend on what may or may not be easily available in a few years. When they stop making M.2 SATA SSDs at some point, existing stock will be exhausted some time later (or become too expensive due to scarcity), while availability with "surviving" formats will still be good.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5K1HTIxI4l2KYOfpY by hp@mastodon.tmm.cx
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       @KeyJ @domi yeah, I think that's a fair point. The point of doing the m.2 sata at all would be to get higher performance storage for a price not the dissimilar from an SD card you'd need up achieve similar performance. But at lower cost for the actual device.If people can't get sata devices to plug in then that doesn't really work very well. 😅
       
 (DIR) Post #B5K1HTTwdDY2sdXRxY by domi@donotsta.re
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       @hp @KeyJ I think a large pro of M.2 would be longevity - i’m not exactly a “power” user of SD cards, and I still get them dropping like flies. some sustain abuse for years (w2k/w98 with a large pagefile), others randomly die after I copy my music collection and do nothing else :/