Author Topic: What size HDD/SDD do you WISH you had started with Arca Noae if within 5ys 2026  (Read 953 times)

Sabon

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If you had bought or built a computer in the last three to five years, what size hdd/sdd do you WISH you had started out with for Arca Noae 5.1x?

I'm asking because I don't want to buy something too small but at the same time I'm on a budget and I don't want to over spend.

I still have my licenses for WP Office for Windows and Lotus Smartsuite for Windows so I'm going to install both of them (really all I want from them in WordPerfect for Windows and Lotus 1-2-3 and not the rest of the suites. Plus I have maybe 20 DOS games including Links LS 386 through Links LS 98 that I want to install. Plus of __course__ DOOM, Quake, and all of the games and modules for those from that era. Oh, and I also have the install Describe disk but I don't think I still have the license number for it so if I need that I'm out of luck for that.

I also hope to relearn C/C++ for OS/2 and also JAVA again for OS/2 programs. I plan on creating some for myself and I hope to (eventually?) help out on any OS/2 projects other people are working on understanding that I would have to make sure any programming I did perfectly fit in with the style and INTENT of what they are making.

I also plan on connecting other internal or external HDDs/SSDs to be able to boot from Haiku which is an open source version of BeOS. Haiku will need reasonably at the VERY most a 6 GB partition. The OS is very small and in 1995 it could run 24 videos at the same time and you could RAPIDLY click from one video to the other and the sound would INSTANTLY switch to the newly clicked video. Meanwhile Windows was at version 3.1 and could run ONE video at a time and OS/2 was version 1.x and could run only one video at a time. And that was on standard PC hardware. Their custom built "BeBox" had two processors (total - WOW ... lol) and could run more than 64 videos at a time. AND you could turn off and on CPUs to see the difference having more than one CPU did to performance which was more than double. However, it was lacking WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, Describe, and ALL of the DOS and Win 3.1 programs we liked, loved or tolerated back when.

But then I got a invite to see a new product IBM was announcing and showing off which was the Beta for OS/2 2.0 and I was ABSOLUTELY TOTALLY blown out of the water for what OS/2 2.0 could do. We got a disk with one license and I took it back to work, installed it on the same hardware but doubled the RAM to 4 MB (WOW - 4 MB) and what they showed me at IBM wasn't something that MIGHT be able to do, it did everything they said and was ROCK SOLID even with DOS and Win 3.1 programs that I used which DOS and Win 3.1 couldn't claim or do.

OS/2 replaced FOUR computers, two DOS, two Win 3.1 computers that I did all of my work on. Even with the BETA version of OS/2 2.0 I could do everything I did on FOUR computers but now with ONE and I did it FASTER and I no longer had to worry about the system hanging or crashing or ... well anything bad 99% of the time for what I personally used it for.

I programmed (I worked for a mortgage company and I was the #2 programmer) in C, I wrote up the emails that we sent out to everyone as far as what to expect with updates and answers to common questions people were asking, I had about a dozen spreadsheets I kept updated, I created digital versions of legal documents, I ran batch files which took updates from the Escrow and investment group to pushed those out to the Home Loan Centers (HLCs) and pulled updates for new and updated mortgage applications for customers. We had 13 remote locations and the batch files ran during the night and were FASTER and had FAR, FAR, FAR less (almost none) disconnections on the dial-ups to those locations (we didn't have leased phone lines to them yet) while the batch files running on DOS crashed and looped picking up where the pushes and pulls left off starting after the last complete record). AND AND AND AND I learned that I could connect to four locations at the same time (obviously with four modems connected to four serial ports) and push and pull all the data from the 13 remote sites even faster.

And people wonder why I fell in love with OS/2? How many reasons do you need? :)  Anyway, if you installed Arca Noae on a hard drive and found it too small and it was 512 GB or bigger and it wasn't big enough, WHY wasn't it big enough and what size did you need to run Arca Noae

I'm looking to buy a 512 MB SSD right now. Is that too small? What size hdd/sdd do you WISH you had started out with for Arca Noae 5.1x?

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I'm looking to buy a 512 MB SSD right now. Is that too small? What size hdd/sdd do you WISH you had started out with for Arca Noae 5.1x?

It is becoming a race to see which devices are less expensive. You may find that a 512 GB (not MB) SSD is more expensive than a 1 TB SSD. More important is to watch the performance numbers.

Then it depends on the capabilities of the host machine. Can it boot from NVME? If so, consider getting an NVME drive, which is likely no more expensive, but will be much faster. The size is the least of your worries. Anything over 128 GB is likely lots, but you will probably want to add a different OS to the mix (it is generally required to have windows installed, so you can do things like BIOS updates).

FWIW, I put a 1 TB NVME M.2 stick, in my newest machine (which can boot from NVME). It works very well, and was no more expensive than a 512 GB AHCI SSD (a couple of years ago now). I chose CRUCIAL brand, for performance reasons. So far, no troubles. I also use CRUCIAL AHCI SSDs for machines that can't boot from NVME.

Disclaimer: I am only a happy customer of CRUCIAL.

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I've read everyone's replies and I'm grateful for them. But when I some the last one where they are a "Disclaimer: I am only a happy customer of CRUCIAL."

I COMPLETELY agree with you. Unfortunately they are getting out of the business of selling to people like us and are going for customer sales instead which is really sad. Most of their new/unused products can only be found on Amazon and other places that are Not on Crucial's website anymore. :( :( :( :(