[Cialug] Good uses for smaller disks?

[Tim Wilson]

Buy IDE to USB cables or external cases and use them as external storage.
Or turn them into art.  But I do like the "shoot them" option. :)

On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>wrote:

> I've put some photos we want to keep on some and taken them to the safe
> deposit box at the bank.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Matthew Nuzum [mailto:newz at bearfruit.org]
> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 09:32 AM Central Standard Time
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Subject: [Cialug] Good uses for smaller disks?
>
> I found in my supply good IDE 80G, 120G and 200G drives. I have three
> servers (one is being decommissioned though, so two servers) that have IDE
> capability. They run VMs, for example, a Git server, Minecraft, Windows VMs
> for web testing, etc.
>
> What would you do? My choices are:
> 1. Throw them away
> 2. Use them for application specific storage
> 3. Add them to the overall storage pool in some way
>
> matt$ ssh arthur df -h
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1        67G   37G   27G  58% /
>
> matt$ ssh ford df -h
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1        73G   23G   47G  33% /
>
> matt$ ssh trillian df -h
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1       458G   70G  365G  17% /
>
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