Or you can get a decent disk for $1 each or nothing, and make them regular useful OpenBSD machines, as opposed to headaches waiting to happen.
On Jun 01 10:21:00, [email protected] wrote: > 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. > >
