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NAS, Server or something else to do with hdd's
Pentium100:
That PSU can be used to make a simple UPS, since you would not need the inverter and switches.
However, you have to be careful with these low power PSUs - since the power is divided among many voltages, you need to find you how much current is required at those voltages (for example, older motherboards use draw a lot of current from the +5V rail, while new motherboards draw more current from +12V rail).
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: Pentium100 on September 02, 2010, 05:26:31 PM ---Also, why a huge 500GB drive for system? I'd rather buy a smaller drive and either save money or get a faster and more reliable drive (or two of them for RAID1). Not even Windows 7 needs 500GB system drive.
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Basically, best value for cost. I think 80GB was around $40 or so at the time. Drives smaller than 500GB don't get much cheaper than $50. So I figured, what the heck, might as well. Extra space isn't such a bad thing, maybe it'll come in handy. Especially if you can get that much more for only that much more. 25% more for 500% more space is pretty good IMO.
And I might have remembered wrong, it might have been $55 or $60. Still a worthwhile purchase, I'd say.
Pentium100:
But you are not using that space, are you?
Anyway, when I needed a couple of hard drives for system use, I bought 9GB 10kRPM ones, since I already had a SCSI bus in each computer. Probably weren't cheaper than 200GB drives, but now at least I'm not tempted to use that extra space and system drives remain system.
I like enterprise grade drives and buy them when I can afford them. Those drives were designed with reliable 24/7 operation in mind.
sapsa:
true, but still alot of use when they see 500GB hdd and 100GB hdd with same price, they pick the bigger want thinking they will "maybe use it latter"
Theres not allot of people that dedicate full hdd for OS.
IMO i would pick the faster one but not all computers got SCSI bus ;]
Pentium100:
Few motherboards have integrated SCSI, but PCI host bus adapters are quite cheap. Also, wide SCSI can support up to 15 devices on a single cable (narrow up to 7).
I dedicate entire hard drive for the OS - makes it easier if I want to try another OS - get another hard drive and replace the old one. I usually do this if I want to see if my current problem is hardware or software related. If I install Windows on a blank hard drive and still have the problem, then it's most likely hardware and I can go back to my old drive.
And now some fast hard drives have SATA interface.
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