Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:43:10 -0500 From: "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly Message-ID: <20060728144310.GA58252@megan.kiwi-computer.com> In-Reply-To: <17609.26997.176143.224198@bhuda.mired.org> 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>
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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
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