Taking apart a PQI IDE Flash Card
Written 2011-07-10
Tags:flash PQI tssop IDE
A while back I ended up with a bunch of Via C3-based thin clients. Each one came with a 16MB IDE flash card designed by PQI Industrial. Today I took one apart.
Use a screwdriver to pry the locks back. You'll need two screwdrivers to get it to happen at the same time, or you can break one and hold the other with the driver.
After pulling back the device, you can see a standard flash TSSOP.
On the back is the TDK TSSOP<->IDE controller.
In particular, this device uses a GBDriverRA2e, which is an older design.
I'm curious if I can pick up some cheap thumbdrives to make my own internal SSDs. However, the number of computers I own with IDE slots is quickly dwindling, although these may find themselves in some small embedded x86 projects.
I'm curious if I can pick up some cheap thumbdrives to make my own internal SSDs. However, the number of computers I own with IDE slots is quickly dwindling, although these may find themselves in some small embedded x86 projects.