313 studio tricks wrote:prices will only go up on a fringe product unless there is a price drop across the board on SSD technology. but ide is dead except in industry and retrofitting which is niche, fringe. thats how it goes with old technology. ram for old applications is expensive stuff compared to new ram simply because there is not enough demand to keep order numbers high.
I'm afraid this is absolutely correct. Probably the only chance we have of getting one of these drives for cheap is if some retailer decides to run out the last of their stock at a discount.
80 quid for the SATA plus adapter solution isn't that far off $200 really, and I have to report that it looks like my Kingwin adapter has failed. The problem is time related in that everything works great for a couple of hours then the load screen freezes, and shortly after that the whole machine. It depends what you're doing at the time as to what happens. I've got another drive in there which is a Sandisk 80 Gb IDE 44 pin and that is working perfectly with the socket converter.
I can't believe the SATA SSD is failing so it has to be the Kingwin, but I could be wrong. I'll get a SATA to USB box at some point to test the drive.
The machine didn't get used for a few months as I was overseas and then moving house, then when I got it running again (to do a job) it was ok for a few days then I got the failure. It feels like its power related (power for the drive is handled on board the Kingwin adapter), maybe a failing cheap electrolytic capacitor, as they don't like to be unused for long periods of time, but 3 months isn't a long time unless it was a crap quality capacitor or just a bad one that slipped through.
So, good to know these drives are compatible!
