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    From calcmandan@77:1/110 to All on Wed Apr 22 02:18:00 2020
    I have a laptop that I got on ebay for a great price. It is a Toshiba
    Satellite 110CS. Purpose is to refurb and return to service. I intend
    to use it for coding and some retro gaming.

    The device luckily came with upgraded RAM so that's a nice piece. The
    guy I bought it from had no idea so that was a hidden surprise.
    The hard drive is a Seagate ST9810AG 810mb IDE 4k RPM with 120kb
    cache. I've connected it to a IDE > USB and mounted it on my existing
    desktop and it works. But I have a feeling that I can't rely on this
    drive for very long at all.

    I'm considering a IDE > Flash card that will fit in the drive slot.

    The OS I'm targeting is a headless linux with emacs and a small
    partition with dos for gaming. Knowing the decay flash cards encoutner
    with alot of read/write cycles, I'm not too worried about the DOS
    partition as that'll likely be mostly read. But the linux partition.

    Or would it be advisable to get a IDE > SATA and put a modern HDD in
    there?


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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to calcmandan on Thu Apr 23 01:10:52 2020
    Or would it be advisable to get a IDE > SATA and put a modern HDD in there?

    I would go with that. Like you said, DOS wouldn't be bad as there isn't a lot of disk IO but linux on the other hand does.

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  • From calcmandan@77:1/110 to Netsurge on Wed Apr 22 23:39:00 2020
    Netsurge wrote to calcmandan <=-

    Or would it be advisable to get a IDE > SATA and put a modern HDD in there?

    I would go with that. Like you said, DOS wouldn't be bad as there isn't
    a lot of disk IO but linux on the other hand does.

    That's what I'm thinking. Thanks, type to go to pcpartpicker.com. I hope
    this restoration project isn't too burdensome. Should be fun.

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to calcmandan on Fri Apr 24 04:02:42 2020
    That's what I'm thinking. Thanks, type to go to pcpartpicker.com. I hope this restoration project isn't too burdensome. Should be fun.

    Playing with old hardware is always fun!

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  • From calcmandan@77:1/110 to Netsurge on Fri Apr 24 03:09:00 2020
    Netsurge wrote to calcmandan <=-

    That's what I'm thinking. Thanks, type to go to pcpartpicker.com. I hope this restoration project isn't too burdensome. Should be fun.

    Playing with old hardware is always fun!

    That's what she said.


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