I have a laptop that I got on ebay for a great price. It is a Toshiba
Satellite 110CS. Purpose is to refurb and return to service. I intend
to use it for coding and some retro gaming.
The device luckily came with upgraded RAM so that's a nice piece. The
guy I bought it from had no idea so that was a hidden surprise.
The hard drive is a Seagate ST9810AG 810mb IDE 4k RPM with 120kb
cache. I've connected it to a IDE > USB and mounted it on my existing
desktop and it works. But I have a feeling that I can't rely on this
drive for very long at all.
I'm considering a IDE > Flash card that will fit in the drive slot.
The OS I'm targeting is a headless linux with emacs and a small
partition with dos for gaming. Knowing the decay flash cards encoutner
with alot of read/write cycles, I'm not too worried about the DOS
partition as that'll likely be mostly read. But the linux partition.
Or would it be advisable to get a IDE > SATA and put a modern HDD in
there?
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