what os are you putting on this drive
I disassemble it for the cool strong magnet and throw away the rest
>>103219085I'm going to try this new thing called Ubuntu.
mabox
>>103219085Manjaro xfce
I tried running linux on a spinning drive recently and it sucked so much. Did OSs always go to disk for every little thing? I was a bit too young back then to really understand what was happening. xfce, lxqt, even just i3 were almost unusable by modern standards. It honestly gave me an appreciation for why phones and tablets caught on when SSDs weren't so ubiquitous.
XBMC
>>103219085Windows XP or 7 depending on the rest of the hardware.All recent so-called "lightweight" Linux distributions I tried were sluggish on a hard disk.(Of course don't even think about Winbloat 10 or 11.)
>>103219387was gentoo with bare xorg and dwm sluggish?
>>103219085Temple OS
>>103219085Windows XP would be comfy
>>103219085>5400 RPM>20 GBBeOS / Zeta would fare well on there. Windows 3.1, 95, or 98 seem like good options too. If you needed something more modern, Haiku might do alright as well.
>>103219085dₐₘₙ ₛₘₐₗₗ ₗᵢₙᵤₓ
>>103219085I had a laptop with one of those 5400rpm hitachi drives in it. Windows 7 ran slow as shit, replacing it with an SSD was like getting a new computer.
>>103219085>20 GBDevuan with an MBR partition table and one primary partition of 19GB and a primary partition for swap at 1GB.That's plenty of space for a basic Xorg and browser install.>they had SATA in 2006I didn't stop running ATA drives with master slave jumpers until like 2014, I had no idea it was available that long ago. I got my first M.2 drive this year.
puppy linuxmaybe alpine
>>103219085netbsd
>>103219278>It honestly gave me an appreciation for why phones and tablets caught on when SSDs weren't so ubiquitousThis, so much this!
>>103219387Puppy Linux too??:O
>>103222343>I got my first M.2 drive this yearWould you please tell how has your experience been?
>>103219085i'd rivet it to someone's car door
only problem is i can't afford a big rivet gun
>>103219085>20GByou can't even fit enough data on this drive to burn a 25GB bd-r
>>103219085>microsoft p/nI'm putting it back in the Xbox it was taken from.
>>103222600>Posting insect webm on /g/ instead of /an/
>>103219085my backup and a downloads folder
Probably just put it in my main pc for a bit of extra storage. Maybe I'll use it to sync my Google drive so I can access those documents on my phone and laptop.
>>103219278I can't speak for Linux since I used only Windows back in those days, but yes. Everything was painfully slow, not just the boot sequence. You'd routinely leave your PC and do something else while it worked. Boot up? Perfect time to go on the toilet, maybe get a snack.Want to install something? That's 15 minutes or a few hours, no one knows. Better do something else. You also can't do it overnight because you have to be there to change the disks/floppies.Later when watching videos online it was similar, you'd open 2-3 tabs of videos and leave, so it could buffer. They did try to minimize disk access, but ram was also painfully limited, so either they outsourced data onto the disk/floppy or they had to use the HDD.
>>103219085i've shilled picrel recently and other anons seem to like it too. underrated distro.
>>103219269Because I couldn't get FreeDOS to run in high memory mode off my NVMe no matter what I tried and I assume the only way I'm going to be able to get it to work right is to boot it off normal SATA. Otherwise I'd be browsing in the Dilo browser.
>>103224561Will try. Thank you!
>>103219085>not ssd
>>103219085>20GBLeaving it in a drawer with the fucking UFS2 on there intact, in case Ol' Reliable stops being reliable and cucks my PS Triple (again)Fucking Hitachi 500GB I put in there died randomly after. HGST tongue my anus.
>>103219085some resin then it can go onna wall
