For me, testing distros in an old Mac is way more than enough; I'll burn ISO Images; netinstalls. I agree that it's better to learn fewer things thorough than many quite shallow, good advice Gunnar .
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021, 18:18 Stefan Monnier, <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: > > Second, the price of spinning disks is such that it makes no > > sense to buy anything smaller than 4TB, which will fit all this, > > and 6-8 TB are often a reasonable idea even for single users. > > You seem to assume a 3½" form factor which either requires a "large" > desktop or an external enclosure. > Personally I consider this form factor dead every since I bought my > first 2TB 2½" disk. > [ For reference, the last 3½" disk I bought was a 1TB WD Green, which > I fitted into my ASUS WL-700gE. ] > > > Stefan > >
