I'm attempting to build a machine for DOS/3.1/98/XP/Linux, and I've about had it with PATA drives from the Stone Age. They're all pretty much either already dead or will die within the first four weeks of current day use. Gotek emulators have become a very popular solution for floppy drives, so surely by now there is some kind of similar way to fool a legacy system into thinking flash memory is a PATA drive.

Since you're all the experts on how this should be done in 2022, I thought I'd see what's recommended now. I'd prefer to get two 8GB devices that my BIOS can understand for DOS/3.1/98, and a larger device in the hundreds of gigabytes (if such a thing exists) that I could use for newer OS's like XP and Linux that don't depend on BIOS geometry so much. (My BIOS has the 8GB limit, but supports some sort of extended LBA in some cases.)