Thin Client Modifications

[Rocket-Boy]

Yes, it is a 512MB SSD, the plug directly onto the mother board. Here are some examples of them

With the HDD I plan to route the IDE cable to the other side of the board (past the CPU+NB) and mirror tape it to the mobo.

I had a 64mb one in the previous ThinClient I had. It only ran Windows CE. I used a 8gb Compact Flash <-> 44pin IDE adaptor back them to run Windows XP on it.

What I did notice was that the board seems to be very close to an ITX form factor so I might build it into a regular PC case, if the mounting holes match.

Those are actually 512mb DOM's not quite the same thing but similar.
I have about 1500 thin clients at various sites so I have done my share of modding over time.
Currently have one of the atom 1.8's running with an SSD and win7 on it for some arb testing stuff.

 

[Rouxenator]

The 32GB DOM I just bought should be fine for Windows 7 Starter edition. I only have of these thin clients left and currently it has 1GB RAM and XPe running on it. The 1Ghz AMD CPU is too old for Windows 8 since it does not have SSE2/PAE/NX support.

 

[Rocket-Boy]

I ran a 32DOM at one stage too, they are pretty slow though.
Fortunately the newer units Im using have a sata port for other drives.
They can be quite fun to find uses for though.