Andrea Pappacoda wrote:
An SSD in an M.2 to IDE adapter would probably be a good and fairly
inexpensive upgrade if they're like to see many updates..
These are small thin clients which have been donated from a bank to the
local hacklab I partecipate in, and us buying a bunch of adapters and
storage drives is less ideal than having stuff break.
My idea with them is to organize a workshop showing off what one can
achieve with OpenBSD base and really poor hardware, ending with giving
the PCs away to people who participate.
I don't think running new software on such old machines is viable in
practice.
If I needed to use 20 PCs with tight storage I would build up a budget
storage server and mount all non boot-critical filesystems over NFS. You
can have a "/" fylesystem taking less than 200 MB and then offload /var,
/usr etc to the server.
The downside is once the machine is removed from your lab it is useless.
