Neil, If you are going for cheap, consider using a 8 gig Compact Flash Card in a Sata to CF card adapter.
I have a few running in machines now for a couple of years with zero issues. I can tell you exactly what parts I am using if you want to go that route. 8 gigs is plenty of space for Ubuntu 10.04 and EMC2. I believe I have 5 gigs of free space or so. Boot speed is quick. Dave On 6/30/2011 11:05 AM, Neil wrote: > Quoting "Kent A. Reed"<knbr...@erols.com>: > >> Neil. I tip my hat to you for working with high schoolers on technical >> matters. I wish more people did. I have spent a fair amount of time with >> several FIRST Robotics teams and I know how frustrating, fun, >> frustrating, and rewarding it can be. >> >> Despite my packrat nature, I'd say dump the PATA drives. There's nothing >> more frustrating than the mysterious errors that start cropping up as >> hard drives begin to fail. >> >> Regards, >> Kent >> > > Thanks. FIRST sucked away a LOT of my time, but was an excellent > experience. Now though, I don't have to deal with the school's > politics, so this has it's advantages. > > I just hate throwing things away, and have about 5 PATA 2.5" drives, > two of which are quite new 120GB units. But I'm willing to pick up > whatever works well. Reliability is key, which is why the SSD is > tempting. FWIW, I know there are SATA to PATA adapters, but really > don't know if to trust those. > > Cheers, > -Neil. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. > Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
