[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by rkistler

(Hmmm: that I have ZERO use for... May be time for a Give Away??? )

Haha...you know, I was thinking the same thing myself. Stay tuned! I'm not sure if I'll give them ALL away, but I'm sure I can part with a few...

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by rkistler

(Hmmm: that I have ZERO use for... May be time for a Give Away??? )

Haha...you know, I was thinking the same thing myself. Stay tuned! I'm not sure if I'll give them ALL away, but I'm sure I can part with a few...

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

Why would a 400gb drive be useless to you?

[Joel Crane]

The largest hard drive I own is 80GB. I consider anything bigger than a 6GB useful, in fact I'm a couple good hard drives short right now. 6 gigs is enough to hold Windows XP or a light version of Linux (Such as the Ubuntu-based CrunchBang).

IDE hard drives and 128mb or bigger PC100-133 RAM modules are two things I can never seem to have enough of.

You may ask what old machines with this kind of hardware is useful for, but I can think of a number of things. A slower, older compact Celeron 600mhz in the kitchen can most certainly Remote Desktop into your desktop computer, a 266mhz PII running Linux in the garage can browse for motorcycle parts and how-tos, and another Celeron 1ghz can be a light duty HTPC or file server.

I'm not joking either. These three computers really exist and are used in my house.

If it has a 600mhz processor, has more than 5gb of hard drive space, and has 256mb of RAM, it can run Windows XP smoothly and is totally, completely useful.

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by Lee Yuan Sheng

Why would a 400gb drive be useless to you?

Because I already have bigger and/or faster hard drives in every computer that needs them. At some point when you've upgraded here and there, you have things that are left over...

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

Heh, I thought you'd just stick them in the machines and leave them there. I still have a 320gb in my current rig with two other 1gb drives.

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by Lee Yuan Sheng

Heh, I thought you'd just stick them in the machines and leave them there. I still have a 320gb in my current rig with two other 1gb drives.

I tend not to add hard drives for the sake of adding hard drives...hard drives use power, make noise, and generate heat. I just took out a 500 GB and 400 GB hard drive from one computer and replaced it with a 1 TB drive to get more performance, less noise, and less heat. Ideally I want to run with as few hard drives in each computer as I can. I have 4 TB of storage in my WHS, so that's plenty of centralized storage.

As for the 1 GB drives, I haven't had those for a long time.

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

D'oh. How silly of me.

[Jason Dunn]

Heads up everyone: I'm giving away seven hard drives, 3.3 TB in total, starting on the 20th of this month. I'll be giving away a hard drive each week. The seven drives range from 750 GB to 300 GB in size. Watch the front page on the 20th for the contest to start!

[Reid Kistler]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

Heads up everyone: I'm giving away seven hard drives, 3.3 TB in total, starting on the 20th of this month. I'll be giving away a hard drive each week. The seven drives range from 750 GB to 300 GB in size. Watch the front page on the 20th for the contest to start!

Hurrah! Just be certain not to ship out a little bundle-of-joy in error!!