I don't know if this is just coincidental but I recently just made two Windows 98 drives using 2 SD cards. One of them seems to freeze if I change settings on a game like Quake 1 or 3. I have a 64 GB one and a 16 GB one.
The write patterns of windows can be kind of hard on SD cards. Not really designed for frequent, low size random I/O. The freezes are probably related to the SD card re-organising data during writes.
Most SD-to-IDE or SD-to-SATA adaptors are actually just cheap and nasty SD-to-CF converters (including the ones that supposedly let you use a bunch of cards as a RAID). Decent ones perform ok but cost more than the SD cards to go in them.
Basically if windows says the drive doesn't support write-caching (or trying to turn on write-caching fails), it's junk.
legend of zelda: SD card of time
HP Z420 Workstation Intel Xeon E5-1620, 32GB, RADEON HD7850 2GB, SSD + HD, XP/7
