[rescue] $35 50gig drives

[Peter Corlett]

<jwb-tech at picarefy.com> wrote:
[...]
> I had one just this morning. I caught myself thinking that most of
> my NetBSD boxes, even the servers, only ("only") need a gigabyte of
> disk, sometimes even less, and that I should just get some Compact
> Flash and SCSI-IDE adapters and move them to solid state instead of
> wondering when these ten-year-old drives are going to crap out...

I'd put money on new CF cards conking out before those old disks do.

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