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

[Bryan J. Smith]

We'll I'm all recycled 2.5" drives here (since 2006).


In fact, I put one of my older 500GB 2.5" drives in my Gateway LT3103u.

I have 250, 320 and 500GB drives in my various servers, and 80-160GB
drives are my backup disks (a few 250GB drives are now being recycled
as well).

The only drive I've lost that is 2.5" is a 250GB.  I accidentally put a screw
through the side of it.  ;)  No other failures than that brain fart of mine --
closing in on 4 years now of 2.5" drives, I have about 36 now.

My 2.5" drives I'll never give away, as I'm likely to use them for backup
media until they fail.
 

----- Original Message ----

From: Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com>

On Wednesday 13 January 2010 04:42:42 pm Kevin Korb wrote:
<snip>
> 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.

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