Nice Time Machine (mixing old with new) S95Sedan!
A wicked gaming system for Glide games like Unreal 😀
I used USB (sneaker net they call it) a LOT but recently played with my home network and LAN cards and I don't think I will be going back 🤣 It's just so convenient. Sometimes the LAN cards like to steal resources so there might be a bit of work involved ensuring the Sound Blaster has the proper resources.
Regarding storage, personally I wouldn't bother with RAID on 40 GB drives. For maximum performance just go with either:
- PCI SATA card and modern SATA drive. Just create a single, max 128 GiB FAT32, partition and install Windows 98
- Use SATA to IDE converter with a modern SATA drive and either limit the capacity of the drive with SeaTools or just through BIOS settings
You will end up with a much faster / quieter / reliable solution.
But as always, it's just a suggestion 😀