I've used small drives a lot. They are great for OS and applications only. Keeping your data on a separate drive makes rebuilds and OS experimentation/cock-ups nice and simple. Plus no-one wants the bloody things. A couple of issues with small drives though:<br>
<br>1 - Older tech, means watch out for slower spindle speeds and smaller cache.<br>2 - Older drives, watch out for bad sectors. I recently binned a drive as it had 51 MB's of bad sectors. It was only 20 GB in size.<br>
<br>I'm setting up a Xen server running on a 40 GB drive. With all the VM's/data on a seperate drive.<br><br>Dan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Richard Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rich@annexia.org">rich@annexia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:01:35PM +0000, M.Blackmore wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> No one? Even a couple of 8-10gb disks would do, I could pair them up in<br>
> the box to run windows and linux for big bad world outside access....<br>
><br>
> Must be hundreds gathering dust on shelves or in boxes out there...<br>
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</div>Why specifically small drives? BIOS problems/limitations?<br>
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<a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html" target="_blank">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html</a><br>
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(Unfortunately I chucked out a number of these drives last Christmas<br>
so I can't help you ...)<br>
<br>
Rich.<br>
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