John Culleton wrote: > On Friday 23 May 2008 11:47:58 am Paul wrote: >> Good Morning! (from this time zone) >> >> In today's issue, this: >> >> I have two hard drives, and use a surge protector. The >> newest/biggest hard >> >>> drive is for work and the older/smaller one is for experiments >>> with different distributions and more pertinently for my two >>> backup partitions. Overnight my work files (/usr/local and /home >>> ) are backed up to partitions on drive number 2. >>> >>> About every three years I buy a still newer and bigger drive. The >>> oldest drive is retired, the remaining drive is demoted to backup >>> duty and the newest is now the daily work drive. I buy hardware >>> from Tiger Direct. >> Wait,what happens to the oldest drive? You don't throw it away, do >> you? Can I have it (them)? (I can't afford new drives, I have to >> choose between food and new drives, and food wins)(yes, I am almost >> dirt poor. I had to walk to school in the winter with just bread >> bags on my feet, and it was up-hill both ways....) >> >> Paul >> > > The retired drives end up in the junque box. I don't think an elderly > 7gb or so drive is worth shipping anywhere. For one thing they are > ATA and SATA is fashionable nowadays. But If you want to pay the > shipping I'll see what I can do. They will be formatted with Linux > partitons, with maybe a stray Win2000 partition here and there. > On what continent do you live? > > Feet? You had feet? I used to crawl to school on my stumps... >
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