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How to optimize win 98/98/3.1 for solid state storage ?

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First post, by Violett'Blossom

Posted on 2019-06-22, 06:52

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Iam interested in using CF cards and IDE SSDs from china, I want them to last a long time, what can I do to improve longetivity of those drives in retro oses ? 😊

Any help is hugely appreciated 😊

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Reply 1 of 2, by Shagittarius

Posted on 2019-06-22, 07:10

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For an SSD leave 20% of the drive unformatted, I think that's about the only thing you can do and that will ensure at least it wears evenly I believe. I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else has any tips for 98 and SSDs too.

Reply 2 of 2, by Jo22

Posted on 2019-06-22, 07:45

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Some guy is selling a TRIM tool for MS-DOS, if my memory serves me well.. Can't remember his name, though.
Other than that, I can only warn about carefree use of FAT32 on an flash device. since it (its clusters, not just the FAT itself) is difficult ot align to 4kiB boundaries.
Both NTFS and FAT12/16 are less troublesome in that respect from what I know. Anyway, I'm just saying.
https://msfn.org/board/topic/151798-does-fat3 … #comment-968582
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