[Gllug] Wanted - small (20, 30, 40gb) ide disks for kids' computers

[general_email at technicalbloke.com]

Peter Corlett wrote:
> On 21 Nov 2009, at 15:33, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
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>> Peter Corlett wrote:
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>>> Your data is evidently worth less than £30 then.
>>>       
>> Yep, I'd be doing something wrong if it was worth more than a few  
>> quid.
>> Thankfully, as it's in several places at once an extra copy has almost
>> zero marginal benefit to me, plus, it's a system disk, why would you
>> keep anything of worth on your system disk?
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> The OS install itself is of worth, especially once it's been  
> customised. Unless your time to rebuild it has zero value, it's worth  
> backing it up along with everything else. Are you sure you've  
> remembered to reinstate *every* cron job, every moody CPAN package, re- 
> sent queued mails, and got the UID mappings right? Does getting that  
> wrong have no cost?
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>   
Well it very much depends on the system doesn't it? A desktop for the
kids should be fine with a pretty vanilla install of Ubuntu or Mint. My
desktop development/work machine would be a nightmare but I'm not
running that off a 10 quid disk am I? ;)

Roger.
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