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 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: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> 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. >> >> ViViViPirePengy >> >> - -- >> Please support Open Standards and cross platform ISO standards and not proprietary >> formats from monopolies. If you are a Windows user protect yourself >> from various virii/malware/adware, trojans, etc., and use Firefox/Mozilla >> for web browsing and not Internet Explorer. HTML emails, and Microsoft >> DOC(X)/XLS(X) formats are not acceptable. Please enclose inline or by >> attachment RTF, TXT or PDF formats. Thank You. >> >> This email generated by a Linux Operating System. >> >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iD8DBQFIN5Q20U8R1ggxA5IRAhEMAJ4vuCaEaEGtLGIPxmYq+xHDD37ZfQCghFac >> LR6z5FR+Jo+dt4+I6Yn+zsw= >> =II/c >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss