mini computer

[mike havens]

Do they ghave something where I could choose which drive to boot off
of? Well, I suppose that won't work. I'll have to get another box to
network with... oopos. I suppose this won't work. Hmmmmm.....


On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:13 AM, koder <hmichels01 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I think Fry's can accommodate you with external HDD housings that would
> explicitly meet your needs. One model is designed to stack so you can
> easily put as many of them on the table as you like.
>
> On the flip side the cost for the housings, or another type of case
> would probably make it a poor investment.
>
> Office Max offered a 500 GB Western Digital USB External hard drive for
> $109.00. The sale ends today, Saturday. I have one I bought last month
> and am pleased with it, so far. They offer a Terra Byte drive for about
> $500. but I don't think it is on sale at the moment.
>
> Plan "C' might be to get a cheap computer with a new, big hard drive and
> stick it in the closet as a server. Der.hans was trying out a small
> computer called the KPC Shuttle. It goes for $100 to $500 depending on
> how many bells and whistles you buy with it.
>
> http://us.shuttle.com/KPC/
>
> A shuttle and a one Terra Byte hard drives running as a server will have
> you donating the old HDDs to charity.
>
> Harold
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 21:06 -0700, OrangeRoot1000 wrote:
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>> Well considering the computer is old. Most new motherboards run sata hdds and my last look at internal hdds a 1tb hdd was $220. So if your drives are over 5yrs old I would recommend replacing them anyway. I picked up a 320gb usb hdd for $85 6 months ago and saw a tb for about the same price as the internal ones. USB has come a long way in kernel support and I've seen 16 gb flashies for <$50 with 1gb running <$10 so why use floppies? There are also special file servers with RAID/Hot swap bays for around $600 and that is all they do is store data. So using a laptop to send/receive data would work wonderfully.
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