Is THIS hard drive large enuff? LOL!

[AB2T]

Eh, I've never had a typical Debian/Ubuntu and desktop environment install (always XFCE or LXDE) go over 15 GB. I never put anything on the system drive other than the files absolutely necessary to run the kernel, environment, and programs. I also get rid of many gui front ends for package management, repositories, etc. I probably have 180 GB left on this drive -- maybe one day I'll repartition and use the extra space for encrypted storage.

If you're going to scavenge for hard drives, make plenty of DBAN (Darik's Book and Nuke) disks and have them handy. I put the iso file on a thumb drive and keep the thumb drive close at hand so that I can make a disk easily. The first thing I do with any "new" (i.e. found) hard drive is do a eight-pass wipe. May take the better part of a day or more, but there'll be absolutely nothing left. You'll also know quickly if the hard drive's a dud. DBAN won't wipe if the hard drive's riddled with bad sectors.

73, Jordan

[KA5LQJ]

Thanks All for your advice. In re-LQ^QKing at the 60 gig drive again, I'm thinking it really
IS to small for what I essentially want to do. Besides doing the digital ham modes, I'm keeping track of Part 90, Public Safety agencies in a 300 mile radius, Emergency Groups,
my space & nature pictures and data on rf propagation as it applies to weather conditions. 8-)

I'm on the LQ^Qkout for a motherboard that has a quad processor and a lot of memory
slots to load up as much memory as I can get, a macine that does RAID and up to 9 hard drives at 2 gigs apiece, and slots for an audio and video card. Hopefully, I'll find a server case to my likeing to hold all of this LOL!

I won't be able to get it today, so I'll start my "savings plan" today.

GOD BLESS,
73,

Don/KA5LQJ

(Moderator it's ok to close this)

[WA9SVD]

I wonder just how many hundred instances of fully installed AmigaOS 4.1 would fit on there...

I'm not sure any of us can count that high...

But when I put together my original XT-Turbo desktop, the "going rate" was an ST-225 Seagate drive for $289, from second sources, the price for such a drive was half-astronomical if purchased direct from IBM. That drive had a capacity of 20 MB, and we all wondered what we'd do with "all that disk space." Now, a couple of good quality JPEG files are HOW big?

[WB2WIK]

I'm not sure any of us can count that high...

But when I put together my original XT-Turbo desktop, the "going rate" was an ST-225 Seagate drive for $289, from second sources, the price for such a drive was half-astronomical if purchased direct from IBM. That drive had a capacity of 20 MB, and we all wondered what we'd do with "all that disk space." Now, a couple of good quality JPEG files are HOW big?

"Nobody will ever need more than 640k of RAM."

-Bill Gates

[AC0H]

I'm not sure any of us can count that high...

But when I put together my original XT-Turbo desktop, the "going rate" was an ST-225 Seagate drive for $289, from second sources, the price for such a drive was half-astronomical if purchased direct from IBM. That drive had a capacity of 20 MB, and we all wondered what we'd do with "all that disk space." Now, a couple of good quality JPEG files are HOW big?

Ahhh, the ubiquitous Seagate ST-225. 20MB of MFM fun.
The original in my Epson Equity 1+ lasted eight months. 5 1/4 inches of full height hard drive.
First time I ever cracked a computer case was to replace that bad boy. Wasn't going to pay the lcoal computer shop where I bought it $200 to repalce it.

20MB??
I've seen Adober pdf's of mortgage documents up to about twice that.

[KC9UDX]

MFM fun.

We have a new oxymoron...

[KA5LQJ]

We have a new oxymoron...

An Oxymoron is an 8-sided iD10t, ROFL!

[VA3CSS]

Ahhh, the ubiquitous Seagate ST-225. 20MB of MFM fun.

Ah yes, the days when you didn't need to look at an LED for an indication of whether or not your hard drive was working. Just listen for the distinct sound:

KER-CHUNK!
KER-CHUNK!

Yep, it's still working!

[WA9SVD]

I remember when a 20Mb drive was adequate; a 80Mb drive was huge!

Man, you're an old F***! I remember when Volkswriter Deluxe Plus would fit on a single floppy, (printer drivers, however were on a separate disk) and boot faster than MS Word. Them was the daze! And I still keep a copy of Volkswriter Plus around; it's still a great text editor, and had some capabilities difficult to reproduce even in Microshaft Word.

I just tossed an old ad (from 2002) that advertised 20 GB hard drives; the largest available at the time was a Maxtor 80 GB drive for $219.00. The premium processor was a Puntium III/1000 MHz with a PC133 bus, for $179.00
Yes, times HAVE changed.

[K6ABZ]

An Oxymoron is an 8-sided iD10t, ROFL!

No, that would be an Octomoron. An Oxymoron would be a the stupidest molecule ever.