OK, so I have this
antique laptop that was given to me for free. Surprisingly, the battery still holds a (partial) charge.
The downside, apart from it being an antediluvian horror, is that it has a 10gb IDE hard disk inside. >.<
I was able to install Linux Mint on it, using some clever combination of putting a 64gb low profile USB thumdrive on and mounting that as /home, and using the 10gb IDE drive as /. It runs "Ok", given what it is.
That said, I have decided that using the thumbdrive as /home is inelegant. I have instead decided to try something silly. So, I purchased these together from amazon (Delivery on the 4th, if you can believe their forecast.)
Item #1 (purchased before sold out, at very big discount!)Item #2, also purchased at a nice after-holiday discount.I notice that the first item supports SD card spec 3.0-- That means it can handle the full speed/capacity of SDXC cards, like item #2 is.
Not that it matters much, since the max you can get out of IDE interface is UDMA 133, which tops out at around 33mb/sec.
Come Monday, I intend to replace the 10gb drive with this combination of items. Given that this thing is rather lacking in the RAM department, I am going to make flagrant use of ZRAM, but are there any additional caveats I should be aware of when abusing flash media as if it were a spinny disk?