From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 16 18:14:54 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B686916A4CE for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:14:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dexter.starfire.mn.org (starfire.skypoint.net [66.93.17.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3468843D1F for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:14:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john@dexter.starfire.mn.org) Received: (from john@localhost) by dexter.starfire.mn.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id j0GIEpp23377; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:14:51 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from john) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:14:51 -0600 From: John To: Timothy Luoma Message-ID: <20050116121451.B23356@starfire.mn.org> References: <20050113152405.A5302@starfire.mn.org> <200501131608.53735.algould@datawok.com> <20050113161851.B5621@starfire.mn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from lists@tntluoma.com on Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:20:58AM -0500 cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions Subject: Re: Out of the frying pan... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:14:54 -0000 On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:20:58AM -0500, Timothy Luoma wrote: > > On Jan 13, 2005, at 5:18 PM, John wrote: > > > Yeah - thinking about that - but should I really need SEVERAL Gb to > > support the environment I want? Maybe... > > FWIW, the day after Thanksgiving, BestBuy had a 250GB drive for $80 > after $100 rebate. Even if you can't find a deal that good, your time > is worth money, and if financially possible, even $50 will get you a > nice large hard drive these days and you can completely segregate > Windows onto another drive if you want. > > (Then again, I bought the drive basically on principle because it was > such a good deal, then I ended up buying a new desktop to put it in, so > you never know where these things will lead... but fortunately for me > it led me to finally have a 100% FreeBSD box) > > Sounds like you've since got it working, glad to hear it. Thanks for the info. I bet those weren't LAPTOP hard drives at those prices, though... On my servers, I have a couple of 73Gb (SCSI) drives... -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG