- May 21, 2022
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Hello, I'm on my quest of building retrocomputers and in a Pentium II 233MHz I put an SSD with a SATA to IDE adapter and installed Windows 98SE on it.
The difference in loading times is noticeable compared to a SCSI HDD I was previously using in that build (now I put OS/2 on that drive), but I also noticed that copying files or even installing games from within the SSD is a lot slower than how it should be, so I was wondering, is it possible that the CPU can affect the writing/reading speeds of the SSD, or the adapter kinda limits it?
Of course an SSD in a retro build isn't the ideal way to go and it's "unfitting", but I like experimenting with hardware, especially making retro-modern Frankensteins like that 😅
The difference in loading times is noticeable compared to a SCSI HDD I was previously using in that build (now I put OS/2 on that drive), but I also noticed that copying files or even installing games from within the SSD is a lot slower than how it should be, so I was wondering, is it possible that the CPU can affect the writing/reading speeds of the SSD, or the adapter kinda limits it?
Of course an SSD in a retro build isn't the ideal way to go and it's "unfitting", but I like experimenting with hardware, especially making retro-modern Frankensteins like that 😅