[geeks] Princeton Univ. Surplus haul today...

Geoffrey S. Mendelson gsm at mendelson.com
Wed Aug 23 11:36:51 CDT 2006


On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:21:13AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote: > So
striped might be of use (if I wanted to go to 200 Gig of storage in one
HD image), but mirrored would actually slow the system down - unless I
strip out the IDE Zip Drive and put the other 100 Gig HD on the channel
with the DVD-ROM drive...


Can you say FIRE? The Zip drive mounting is not designed to vent a hard
drive properly. I did exagurate, but it will overheat and have problems.

Geoff.
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