Re: Time to buy a new computer

[Wade Hampton <whampton@staffnet.com>]

Aaron Turner wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Wade Hampton wrote:
> 
> > Jason Pincin wrote:
> > >
> K.
> 
> > > I don't know what the hell processors yur talkin about?  CuMine?  Are they
> > > celeron's or sumthin?  Whatever they are, they should be fine :)
> > Oh, Copper Mine....
> 
> Looks like someone remembered something from chemistry class. :)
Don't ask how long its been :(
> 
> > > The Case mfg. I love is colorcase.com.  You have to actually place an
> > Sounds interesting -- I'll have to check it out too....
> 
> I can't find any of their cases with more than 2 internal 3.5" drive bays.
> That really sux.  My current AT case has 5.
> 
> > > As for IDE... I'm sorry to hear that *laugh*  Nah... as long as you get
> > > two drives, attached to seperate controllers, and do yur partitioning
> > > right you should be able to get the performance to a decent level.
> > Only problem is you fast run into the 4 drive limit (1 20G HD, 1 DVD,
> > 1 CD-R/RW, 1 ZIP -- I'm done).
> 
> I'll keep my SCSI around.  I still love my Plextor 4x CDROM.  Not sure if
> my future CDRW will be SCSI or IDE, but I should be ok.  Not to mention I
> I think I might go with that 40GB 7200RPM monster from Maxtor.
Nice!  BTW, at work I am trying to get 3-4 50G w/ raid ctrl. 
> 
> > > Sounds like it'll be a rockin system.  Sorry to hear about the *crash*  I
> > > hate when that happens.  :(
> > Must be a bug, he must have run the HCF instruction (Halt and Catch
> > Fire).
> > Sorry about the crash.  With good drives, they are fairly rare now.
> > (The WORST drives we ever had were some AV SCSI drives, 100% failure!)
> 
> Remember Micropolis?  Oh man did those suck.  But yeah, I've been having
> problems with my drives for some time now.  I was just hoping to put it
> off for as long as I could.
Yep -- that's what they were -- drives looked good.  We bought about
6-8 of them for a project.  I really had a problem with security in 
Boston trying to bring back a couple of them that died while doing
some work up there (long story and I can't detail it here).

I hope you had backups (at least of the critical stuff).  I am REALLY
bad about that -- I usually only backup /home, /etc, /root, and
any "server" drives.

Cheers,
-- 
W. Wade, Hampton  <whampton@staffnet.com>  
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