[Leaplist] Old disks (was: Different netbooks ... CPU and GPU limitations)

[Jason Boxman]

On Wednesday 13 January 2010 04:42:42 pm Kevin Korb wrote:
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> Essentially, this computer contains all of my older hard drives.  They
> range from 120GB to 400GB.  I use it to store large quantities of rarely
> accessed data.  Obviously I could redo it with a smaller number of larger
> hard drives but this was a great way to continue using disks I already had.

I'll eventually have that problem as well -- perfectly good drives that can 
still be used for something.  Sadly running a ton of drives on a box is kind 
of a pain, physical size wise.  I love my AOpen H700A, but it's huge and 
heavy.

I have four 120GBs I still use as a RAID 5 hanging off a 3Ware.  Someday, I'll 
probably want to reduce my physical footprint, but I bet they'll still run.  
Ugh.  Also have 3x300GB, all drives legacy PATA too, plus 2xwhatever RAID 1 in 
desktops...  And some of that stuff could even be NFS or tftp booted.

/ramble

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