The Pleasure
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I just had the click of death on a vintage laptop. The drive clicked and poof. My laptop's hard drive is dead. The specs on this are the envy of any vintage gamer. Fear
Windows 98 SE Plus
2gb IDE Hard Drive
Pentium 200 MMX Technology
160mb of ram
Now for those that are well versed in these things, what is the best way to go. Compactflash to IDE, SD to IDE, or a mSata to IDE or the weird SSD IDE hard drive.
Anyone have any experience with retro builds?
I know that if I go the SSD route there is no trim support. How long will a vintage build last without trim support on a hard drive? I was also told that SD and Compact Flash have limited write cycles so the virtual paging file will destroy those in months.
Also for WDM Drivers, how do you get DOS sound? It seemed to work when it wanted in Windows, but in DOS, I got no sound support, midi wouldn't emulate in DOS, even though the IRQ was set properly and the soundblaster "emulation" supposedly was working.
Windows 98 SE Plus
2gb IDE Hard Drive
Pentium 200 MMX Technology
160mb of ram
Now for those that are well versed in these things, what is the best way to go. Compactflash to IDE, SD to IDE, or a mSata to IDE or the weird SSD IDE hard drive.
Anyone have any experience with retro builds?
I know that if I go the SSD route there is no trim support. How long will a vintage build last without trim support on a hard drive? I was also told that SD and Compact Flash have limited write cycles so the virtual paging file will destroy those in months.
Also for WDM Drivers, how do you get DOS sound? It seemed to work when it wanted in Windows, but in DOS, I got no sound support, midi wouldn't emulate in DOS, even though the IRQ was set properly and the soundblaster "emulation" supposedly was working.
