Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:14:51 -0600 From: John <john@starfire.mn.org> To: Timothy Luoma <lists@tntluoma.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Out of the frying pan... Message-ID: <20050116121451.B23356@starfire.mn.org> In-Reply-To: <C954A460-6786-11D9-A288-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com>; from lists@tntluoma.com on Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:20:58AM -0500 References: <20050113152405.A5302@starfire.mn.org> <200501131608.53735.algould@datawok.com> <20050113161851.B5621@starfire.mn.org> <C954A460-6786-11D9-A288-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com>
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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
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