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

[Dan Rogers]

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:

1 - Older tech, means watch out for slower spindle speeds and smaller cache.
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.

I'm setting up a Xen server running on a 40 GB drive.  With all the
VM's/data on a seperate drive.

Dan

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:01:35PM +0000, M.Blackmore wrote:
> > No one? Even a couple of 8-10gb disks would do, I could pair them up in
> > the box to run windows and linux for big bad world outside access....
> >
> > Must be hundreds gathering dust on shelves or in boxes out there...
>
> Why specifically small drives?  BIOS problems/limitations?
>
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html
>
> (Unfortunately I chucked out a number of these drives last Christmas
> so I can't help you ...)
>
> Rich.
>
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