I'd presume retro builders have used all kinds of PATA -> SSD solutions. Well, now that's out of my chest (ok, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit), but seriously, these old IDE drives are really loud (compared to modern standards and for a silent computing fanatic) and might fail at any moment, being 10+ years old. Oh but the hard drives, the hard drives are noisy as **** and they are making me ears bleed and meh brain go CRAZY!!!! It has a nice silent CPU cooler, a nice silent PSU, passive GPU (for the time being, at least). I've put together a nice retro PC (AMD-K6II+, DOS/Win98, Audacian32.
