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First post, by JohnJohny

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I was wondering about upgrades for my Win98 machine.
I'm currently using a standard 30GB IDE hard drive.
My options are a SATA SSD or a SCSI HD, I could also just leave it as it is.

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Reply 2 of 7, by cyclone3d

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SATA SSD will be way faster than a SCSI HDD.

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Reply 3 of 7, by chinny22

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Even SATA HDD is better then SCSI.
If it was me though I'd just get some of those SATA to IDE adapters that let you use SATA HDD or SSD's off the inbuilt IDE controller which Win98 will understand nativly

Reply 4 of 7, by collector

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For future reference per the pinned topic in this forum: "This forum is for running old Windows games on NEW (supported) versions of Windows" You should ask old hardware and configuration questions in Marvin. Marvin, the Paranoid Android

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Reply 6 of 7, by Caluser2000

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First off why do you need to upgrade it?

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Reply 7 of 7, by eric1992

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JohnJohny wrote:

I was wondering about upgrades for my Win98 machine.
I'm currently using a standard 30GB IDE hard drive.
My options are a SATA SSD or a SCSI HD, I could also just leave it as it is.

Try getting an SD to IDE adapter and preferably a Sandisk SD card (Don't do gigastone those cards don't work well) for a hard drive. It actually works well for my machine.