[Novalug] new hard drive

[Beartooth]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Dan Arico wrote:

>>  	So, to get back to Greg's topic, do I have *two* failing 
>> hard drives?? Or none? Or what? (Everything I know about 
>> hardware would go comfortably in a gnat's eye.)
>
> For me, it always comes down to this question:
>
> Which is more valuable, the drive or my time? Since Microcenter 
> has rack after rack of new drives and I have yet to find a 
> store that sells time, I opt for replacing any drive that shows 
> signs of going bad.

 	Sure, ordinarily. But this quite an old machine, whose 
only use, other than as testbed, is to run Opera with a couple 
dozen tabs open to weather sites; as long as it keeps 
running, it might as well take that graphic load off the others.

 	But we already see the handwriting on the wall: as the 
makers taper off square monitors and we see only ultra-wides, 
we're going to have to be replacing machines anyway, just to be 
able to handle the monitors.

 	So somebody who just wants a headless server, and speaks 
hardware, can pop a new drive into it herself, and benefit a lot 
more than Jo & I will.

 	I offered it on one of the VTLUUG forums, and got a 
taker, or so I thought; but I haven't had a reply to the question 
of getting it to where it may be wanted. <shrug>

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Beartooth Gerontoflatulocrat,
Cantankerous Codger
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