Posted Sat Mar 23, 2019 8:29 am
Others can speak more fluently around this, but as I understand it your new 3.1.4 won't care about the size of the drive anymore. It should be stable regardless.
But my point still holds that the larger the drive, the longer the boot-up - if that matters to you at all.
My A1000 with 100MB drive is pretty quick. My A2000 with ... geez, what is it? I think I put a 2gb SD card in there and broke it into two partitions. It's either 2gb or 4gb. Now I have to go check. But it has a 40MB mechanical boot drive and then the SCSI2SD for most of my working files (games, photo editing, terminal programs, etc.). And it takes over 10 seconds of staring at a white screen while the larger drive is sized up by the computer.
Back in the late 90s when I was at my first art school stint I was running Win95 boxes. I had to render 3D animation on those things and it was absolutely brutal (3D Studio r4). One frame could take minutes to render, and 30 frames rendered = 1 second of animation. Each frame could be around 1MB, too. So a 100MB Zip Disk could safely hold only about 3 seconds of animation. Hah! I was walking around with Jenga stacks of disks back then. They would be labeled something like 0030-0120 and I would eventually have to transfer them all to SVHS.
I remember when I moved that machine to something like 16MB of RAM and eventually 32MB, it was a big freaking deal. And it was not cheap for my broke butt back then, either. My hard drives, if I remember correctly, were only a couple of hundreds of MB. Hence my dependence on external disk solutions.