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

[Kevin Korb]

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Ouch.  I almost killed a 3Ware card in a similar blunder.  I mounted a
3.5" hard drive a bit too far forward and didn't realize the HD's shell
was touching the contacts of the disk access LED.  That LED was plugged
into a 3Ware controller which was then a dead short.  The 3Ware pumped
enough power into that LED wire to melt the entire ~2 feet of insulation
and finally burn off the solder joints to the LED.  Surprisingly the 3Ware
controller was not destroyed.

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:23:53 -0800 (PST)
"Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:

> 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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