Deal on external hard drive

Post #326,041 by drook 5/12/10 7:17:11 AM Reply	Deal on external hard drive Amazon has a 640G external drive for $80. I remember when something like that was $thousands. http://www.amazon.co...330030_pe_00_head -- Drew
Post #326,045 by beepster 5/12/10 8:18:43 AM Reply	You can get a Tb for 10 less http://www.newegg.co...m=N82E16822145293 I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill.
Post #326,057 by drook 5/12/10 9:20:15 AM Reply	HFS Imagine your reaction had someone told you that 5 years ago. -- Drew
Post #326,060 by beepster 5/12/10 9:36:54 AM Reply	Still have a receipt for ram 16mb for $600. Yes sir, times have changed. I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill.
Post #326,072 by drook 5/12/10 12:25:37 PM Reply	Hoarder -- Drew
Post #326,074 by beepster 5/12/10 12:37:23 PM Reply	Yep. Certain things anyway...was going through and throwing out files prior to the move..saw that one and said (even 3 years ago) "wow" and stuck it back for posterity. I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill.
Post #326,101 by static 5/12/10 7:34:31 PM Reply	I was going to compete... ... but that would be rather silly. However, some sorts of old-tech start going up in price. Try finding small (<4Gb) SCSI-1 hard drives, for instance. Or certain old processors, like a TMS9900. Wade. Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers? A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
Post #326,117 by folkert 5/12/10 11:51:06 PM Reply	How many you want? I've got 4 - 2.1GB 40-pin half-height drives that might work :P And one 210MB Winchester RLL drive.
Post #326,118 by static 5/13/10 12:00:47 AM Reply	Dunno. I've got one that works and may already have another. But another as spare would be useful. They get used on my Ensoniq sampler and thus requires an external box which gets transported whenever I play. The drive is, unfortunately, the least robust part, hence the desire for a spare. Which is also why I've found a SCSI Zip drive I intend to make go when I get a round tuit. However, I'm on an active Ensoniq mailing list and there are people who ocasionally go looking for (more) SCSI storage. I'm fairly sure you could easily sell all of them. What if I buy one and tell the list I can source three more and then send you shipping details and funds to do that when there are takers? Wade. Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers? A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
Post #326,120 by Andrew Grygus 5/13/10 12:55:36 AM Reply	But 40-pin is IDE, SCSI is 50 pin.
Post #326,134 by static 5/13/10 9:27:58 AM Reply	Oy. Well spotted... :-( The other giveaway is that SCSI drives have more jumpers for configuration. Wade. Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers? A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
Post #326,150 by folkert 5/13/10 1:11:01 PM Reply	Yep, I just counted... Its actually correct 50 pin. My bad!
Post #326,318 by crazy 5/16/10 3:08:17 PM Reply	Just got mine So we had a blackout. And then my primary PC hung on grub. processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 2397.594 cache size : 4096 KB When I installed it a few years ago, there was a problem with the SATA/ATA interface. During the Kubuntu install, the CD access failed the moment the drivers loaded to access the disk. I popped a 4GB SCSI disk in, and installed to that. Then installed to the SATA. Which refused to boot. But I could tell Grub on the SCSI disk to boot the SATA disk. Ugly. Some interesting disk failures later. Always confusing of what disk was what in the /dev/sd* chain. Total of about 500GB on 2 SATA disks used. Off to Walmart. Well, not really, off to 3 different places before I settled on what I got. 1TB Seagate Barracuda. $89. http://www.google.co...st310005n1a1as-rk http://www.seagate.c...S&reqPage=Support My system is a dual core desktop, but it is a desktop. So why not try to make it easy this time. Rather than screw around with a server verson of Linux, and trip up on the fun stuff, how about I try fun 1st. So I installed the Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Since it was on a USB stick I bypasses the previous silly CD issue. http://www.ubuntu.co.../download-netbook And then copied all the other disks to this one. I removed the SCSI card, the old SCSI and SATA disks, and now am consolidated to a single disk. Boot time on this is incredible. When I has my previous setup, it took about a minute before grub notice to login prompt. This system does the same startup in 9 seconds. Very happy that my system crashed.
Post #326,331 by Another Scott 5/16/10 4:10:38 PM Reply	Neat. Just remember USB sticks can fail too.
Post #326,336 by crazy 5/16/10 4:48:14 PM Reply	Not an issue Installed from the USB to the SATA disk. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 92G 3.9G 84G 5% / udev 994M 296K 994M 1% /dev none 994M 1.5M 993M 1% /dev/shm none 994M 84K 994M 1% /var/run none 994M 0 994M 0% /var/lock none 994M 0 994M 0% /lib/init/rw /dev/sda1 183M 32M 142M 19% /boot /dev/sda7 818G 433G 345G 56% /data

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