First post, by WildW
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Hello all, I'm looking for some advice on alternatives to IDE hard disks to work with older hardware. I know there are a few alternatives...
- SATA devices with converters to IDE
- Compactflash adapters
- SD card adapters?
- Disk-on-module - which seem to be very small capacity IDE solid state drives for industrial PC use.
- Anything else?
My experiences with SATA to IDE converters has been pretty bad, and a couple I've bought recently have just not worked at all - perhaps my fault for buying cheap from eBay.
Compactflash I know is basically IDE (except maybe newer ones?) - I've used these as an Amiga hard disk but not in a PC, so I don't have a feel for how fast/slow they are.
What would people suggest for use in a Windows 95/98 machine? I would like something at least comparable in speed and capacity to a real hard drive from that era - does it exist?