iwcham1979 wrote on 2023-04-28, 14:53:
Hello guys, I bought this board with Intel DX4 overdrive and 32GB ram, all socketed 😎 and also bought a nice AT case with PSU. I don’t have a HDD and I am interested if a 10Gb hdd will work with this board? I found a narely used, 28days total working time Seagate ST310014ACE with 100% health. What do you think? Is this any good?
The board is SA486P AIO Rev:1.0
Any help appreciated. I have very limited knowledge when it comes to retro hw. Cheerz!
Welcome. Firstly, well, you increased the size of your RAM by a thousand folds. 😅 Those should be four sticks of 8MB 72-pins SIMM.
Secondly, a 10GB HDD is way too large for a 486/OD system; it became available around 1999 when Pentium 2 was the mainstream while Pentium 3 was just around the corner. Even if its BIOS could handle HDD larger than 528MB/504MiB (very unlikely), you still need an OS that supports FAT32 (e.g. Windows 98) to partition the HDD, something the system would struggle with difficulties to run. IMHO a CompactFlash memory card with 128-512MB would be your best option.