Use of Solid State Hard Drives in games...

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Anyone use these for any hard drive based games yet?
Are there any advantages?
Disadvantages?

I am thinking of Ghosting my 19Xx-n-1 and a Rockin' Bowl O Rama. Any idea on the size of drives needed?

Where is the best lace to purchase?

Any help is appreciated!
 
I've got plenty of them, shipping may be an issue.:rolleyes:
 
Haahahahaha! Just throw it in a box! No wrapping needed....

I am trying to figure out if they are worth the price and see if anyone knows the answers to the above questions.

If you have a few for sale, and they will work for the aboe applications, lmk.

Thanks!
 
Haahahahaha! Just throw it in a box! No wrapping needed....

I am trying to figure out if they are worth the price and see if anyone knows the answers to the above questions.

If you have a few for sale, and they will work for the aboe applications, lmk.

Thanks!

Yeah, no. That was a joke. I honestly don't see an advantage in using them in a game.

I'd rather use an Sd card with adaptor vs a HD or a SSD.

Definetly not worth the money IMO.
 
Agreed. Way too much money for an actual SSD. I successfully used CF and SD cards in my games. Faster boot times and cooler running and no worries about removing the drive when transporting a game etc. For anything but the newer games an 8GB is plenty.
 
The biggest problem is most SSDs are SATA drives... and unless I'm way off base; most classic HD based games use IDE (IE PATA) connections.

As such; I doubt you'll be able to use an SSD in a arcade game... without some sort of converter which rarely works right.

I'd put one in my ST:voyager... but the tech is so old... it's proably easier to upgrade the PC than do the conversion thing.
 
SSD is great, well the older ones, i have a couple personally and the price doesn't outweigh the benefits and as zitt said (except for computers), no sata on most if not all arcade related applications.

no moving/mechanical parts so they should not fail.....

problem is the new generation of ssd's have hit and miss results. I've seen 3+ brick after a few months use (these are larger 60-120gb drives tho).
 
The actual SSDs are too big, SATA only, not all that reliable... overall not a good match.

CompactFlash cards are a godsend though. They have built in IDE (all you need is a pinout converter) and come in all the right sizes. Not to mention, I've never seen one actually fail... I mean, I'm sure it happens, but it's rare enough I wouldn't know what that looks like.
 
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