On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 01:46:41 -0400, micky
wrote:
On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:59:29 -0500, wrote:
Before i buy an add-on board, I'll just buy a used 120g HD.
Of course used drives are that much closer to failure.
Yea, but you cant buy smaller new ones anymore. Right now, i'm using a
40g Seagate, which I bought on Ebay for $6 total, with shipping. I was
looking for an 80g, but there were no 80s at the time for a good price.
I couldn't pass up this deal. It's always a spare, which I sometimes
use for storage, then back it up to a USB drive, and unplug it, and
label it. This week or next week, I'll probably find an 80g or 120g for
a good price and will move the install over to that, since I now know
how. I picked up that 160g for $13 total, that was a good deal too.
I remember back in the early 1990's paying $150 for a 10 meg drive, and
it was one of those 5 1/4" boat anchors. I think they were called a MFM
drive, and those things did tend to go bad quickly. I've had few
problems with IDE drives. I have a whole box full of 1g to 10g IDE
drives, there was a local computer recycling company, but they went out
of business. I bought that whole box for something like $3. But those
are just too small for much these days, especially below 10g
Also back then, I bought some 40 MEG SCSI drives, from an industrial
supplier. Those suckers were 5 1/4 by 4 inches thick, and weighed a
ton. At that time, I had 2 of them on the same Dos/Win3.x 486 computer,
and that was a LOT of drive space for those days.
I recall back then, when the first 1G drives came out, I said "no body
needs that much drive space". Now I say the same thing for the 1tb (or
more) drives.
Times sure have changed!
For now, 200g (on two drives) suits me well, on both XP and W98.