On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 09:03:00 -0600 Chuck Hast <[email protected]> dijo:
>Seagate is evil. After sleeping on the problem I have arrived at a new plan. The desktop computer in question is actually about seven years old. There was originally one Seagate 200GB hard drive, replaced about four years ago when it failed, with two 300GB Seagate hard drives because I wanted to experiment with mdadm so I used them to create a 300GB mirror. After two more years one of these drives failed, but I got a replacement (refurbished) from Seagate under warranty. Right after its warranty expired the other one failed, leaving me with just the refurbished drive, which has now failed. When the other one failed I decided I didn't really need a mirror so I just carried on with the refurbished one. In the middle of this I added a 2TB Western Digital drive which is still running fine. I am currently running on an 8GB USB stick that I installed Xubuntu 17.10 on. I installed enough stuff to make the computer usable until I get a replacement boot drive. At that point I will install Xubuntu 17.10 on it and all the stuff I need for linguistics and movies, which I will dist-upgrade to 18.04 when it comes out. Then I will stick with 18.04 for many years. The computer itself (motherboard, case, etc.) is also seven years old. It's running pretty slow now on the USB stick because it's just USB 2.0. So my new plan is to build myself an entirely new computer with up to date parts. Since it will take a while to finish the shopping and for things to arrive, why not wait to put it together until the February Clinic? And anyone here who wants to learn how to build a desktop computer, you're welcome to come and participate. Lots of fun! Plus, when the new computer is all functioning properly I will donate the old one (minus drives) to whoever can make use of it. It'll make a fine computer for tasks that don't require huge computing power. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
