There is another consideration when using SSDs with an old OS like Windows 98, which is that it doesn't support TRIM, which as I understand it can cause major issues (performance, longevity) under heavy utilisation. Perhaps I am lucky but I have never had any reasonably modern mechanical hard drive fail on me so I think this remains an excellent and affordable option for most people if you don't mind a bit of noise.
How heavy usage are we talking, before this might be an issue. Also, would I noticed massive issues before a fail? Im using a SATA SSD for the Win98 drive, Im not exactly going to thrash its to an inch of its life. Im assuming it will be ok?
@@RetronautTech To mitigate it, some people say to leave ~25% of the drive unpartitioned so if using it for bulk storage of e.g. eXoDOS and ISOs you'd potentially be in danger of filling the drive and would want some additional headroom. It seems to be quite a complicated topic and there is more than one way of working around it so it's worth doing some research.
At the end of my video, I talk about using the SSD as the system drive, and maybe where games are installed to. But then I go on to say I'll be using the BlueSCSIv2, to host one or more SCSI drives where I will store most of the data for the games. Now... I do wonder if there is a way to mount these image files on a PC? Maybe its just built into the OS, Window 10 for me. Ideally I can mount these images, and copy games directly onto the drives in Windows, because on Win98, this can be VERY slow, say going from a USB Flash drive, to the HD, and then unzipping a CD-Rom ISO can take an age, we are talking hours combined...@@SanguineBrah
I'm not very familiar with BlueSCSI but if they are just raw image files they could probably be mounted in a virtual machine for prep. ISOs can be mounted directly to a virtual optical drive in Windows 98 using Daemon Tools @@RetronautTech
Yeah, Ill give mounting an image in Win10 a go this evening. I hope it is mountable directly, or maybe using some util. Internally it will be Fat32, so it should be readble.@@SanguineBrah
I used the external SCSI SyQuest not a ZIP, because it was superior in all respects (even bootable)
I recall the SyQuest was a good option back then. I've not actually used my Zip drives yet. Not enough hours in the week...
There is another consideration when using SSDs with an old OS like Windows 98, which is that it doesn't support TRIM, which as I understand it can cause major issues (performance, longevity) under heavy utilisation.
Perhaps I am lucky but I have never had any reasonably modern mechanical hard drive fail on me so I think this remains an excellent and affordable option for most people if you don't mind a bit of noise.
How heavy usage are we talking, before this might be an issue. Also, would I noticed massive issues before a fail? Im using a SATA SSD for the Win98 drive, Im not exactly going to thrash its to an inch of its life. Im assuming it will be ok?
@@RetronautTech To mitigate it, some people say to leave ~25% of the drive unpartitioned so if using it for bulk storage of e.g. eXoDOS and ISOs you'd potentially be in danger of filling the drive and would want some additional headroom. It seems to be quite a complicated topic and there is more than one way of working around it so it's worth doing some research.
At the end of my video, I talk about using the SSD as the system drive, and maybe where games are installed to. But then I go on to say I'll be using the BlueSCSIv2, to host one or more SCSI drives where I will store most of the data for the games. Now... I do wonder if there is a way to mount these image files on a PC? Maybe its just built into the OS, Window 10 for me. Ideally I can mount these images, and copy games directly onto the drives in Windows, because on Win98, this can be VERY slow, say going from a USB Flash drive, to the HD, and then unzipping a CD-Rom ISO can take an age, we are talking hours combined...@@SanguineBrah
I'm not very familiar with BlueSCSI but if they are just raw image files they could probably be mounted in a virtual machine for prep. ISOs can be mounted directly to a virtual optical drive in Windows 98 using Daemon Tools @@RetronautTech
Yeah, Ill give mounting an image in Win10 a go this evening. I hope it is mountable directly, or maybe using some util. Internally it will be Fat32, so it should be readble.@@SanguineBrah
There's a youtuber (dosdude1) that made native IDE SSDs, not sure how the speed compared to what you are getting, it's a bit out of my comfort zone.
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Thanks