[Cialug] Good uses for smaller disks?

[David Champion]

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On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> OK, thanks for the tips.
>
> The overall impression I'm getting is that being clever and incorporating
> them into the storage pool somehow (either points 2 or 3) is a recipe for
> unneeded complexity and problems.
>
> I still remember when 5Gb of storage was a lot so discarding effectively
> 400G of storage feels so wasteful. I have a usb case that I'll use with the
> 200Gb drive and I'll probably rob the magnets out of the other two.
>
> Yes, recycling them by donating/selling/etc would be nice but I don't have
> high confidence that I can securely wipe the data without significant
> effort. I don't own any assault rifles and I don't think shooting them with
> the airsoft pistol will have any where near the same effect  not thrill.
>
> The clock face idea is awesome, I wonder if I can make the hands look like
> the read/write heads...
>
> On Dec 30, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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