What are the options for a motherboard speaker?

[Yrogirg]

I am talking about the one that makes the beep sound on boot.

The most common type it seems are those small piezoelectric speakers on two short wires:

If you search, you can also find ones with longer wires.

However, you can also buy a proper speaker like

Is there anything else? What is the difference between various speakers, how to mount them in a case? Are there any material on the history of these speakers?

I was thinking to use such a speaker to play a notification at the end of my data processing scripts.

[mutation666]

You board has to deliver enough to power the speaker that’s about it. Not sure what the rated power delivery is

[regulareel]

Are we even back to this? I recall my old pc having horrible PC speaker because there was a time when our powered speaker broke and there was no other audio options. I understand that it was more along the lines of audio feedback of events happening (clicking sound each time your game character moves a tile) rather than actual music and melodies.

Is there an advantage other that a larger speaker will sound louder?