From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 28 14:43:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C96E116A580 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:43:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: from kiwi-computer.com (megan.kiwi-computer.com [63.224.10.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 43A6A43D64 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:43:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: (qmail 58381 invoked by uid 2001); 28 Jul 2006 14:43:10 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:43:10 -0500 From: "Rick C. Petty" To: Mike Meyer Message-ID: <20060728144310.GA58252@megan.kiwi-computer.com> References: <20060727180412.GB48057@megan.kiwi-computer.com> <17609.1474.618423.970137@bhuda.mired.org> <44C910BE.9000108@dial.pipex.com> <20060727185721.GC25626@manor.msen.com> <17609.9516.506115.204334@bhuda.mired.org> <44C93454.5020404@dial.pipex.com> <17609.16421.670624.80289@bhuda.mired.org> <44C953BA.4070008@dial.pipex.com> <20060728011343.GB51284@megan.kiwi-computer.com> <17609.26997.176143.224198@bhuda.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17609.26997.176143.224198@bhuda.mired.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:43:13 -0000 On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:33:41PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > > "Small disk drive" means "smaller than any drive I can buy at the > local Best Buy/Circuit City/CompUSA/similar". At the time, I needed an > 80GB drive, and paid about $60 for it. Well then your comparison isn't really fair.. Sure, a brand new hard drive from a retail outlet is more expensive than a 10-year-old box (especially if the box is refurbished). No surprise there! I thought we were comparing oranges and oranges. In that case, check out www.geeks.com (the old computergeeks), they have a number of drives for sale under $49.95. > Try http://www.pcretro.com/. Their current special is the Dell > PowerEdge 6350 (dual CPU, 255MB ram, 2 9GB hot swap drives on separate > controllers) for $49.95. The boxes I bought had a mouse and keyboard > included, no monitor or speakers. Not that I cared - I tossed the > mouse and keyboard on the spare parts pile and plugged them into a > KVM. -- Rick C. Petty