I have found a source of cheap ($20.) 120GB 3600RPM HDD's. Other than needing to be patient using one in a backup role should I anticipate any problems with SuSE 9 or 9.1? My concern is potential time-outs or the like. -- Blessings ... dmc West Central Florida ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This E-mail was generated using SuSE 9.0 Linux & Mozilla. This PC is free of all Microsoft products. Visit: www.suse.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Not really what you're asking, but I see the 120GB and 80GB Western Digital and Hitachi 7200 RPM drives with 8MB buffers on sale at Fry's Electronics for $48 and $58 ever other week. Might save you some headaches for a few $ more. You have to send in a rebate coupon, but they run the same add every two weeks. -----Original Message----- From: dmc [mailto:kd4e@verizon.net] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 8:08 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] 3600 RPM Drive Too Slow? I have found a source of cheap ($20.) 120GB 3600RPM HDD's. Other than needing to be patient using one in a backup role should I anticipate any problems with SuSE 9 or 9.1? My concern is potential time-outs or the like. -- Blessings ... dmc West Central Florida ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This E-mail was generated using SuSE 9.0 Linux & Mozilla. This PC is free of all Microsoft products. Visit: www.suse.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
WARNING Frys ripoff bait (rebate) dont work. three times I did everything they said and three times no rebate. never count on them. I am not alone in this experience. The site below has more. Rip Off Report:Columbia Telecommunications Group rebateripoff. www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff90554.htm Look only at the price without the rebate. CWSIV On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 21:46, Richard Mixon (qwest) wrote:
Not really what you're asking, but I see the 120GB and 80GB Western Digital and Hitachi 7200 RPM drives with 8MB buffers on sale at Fry's Electronics for $48 and $58 ever other week. Might save you some headaches for a few $ more. You have to send in a rebate coupon, but they run the same add every two weeks.
-----Original Message----- From: dmc [mailto:kd4e@verizon.net] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 8:08 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] 3600 RPM Drive Too Slow?
I have found a source of cheap ($20.) 120GB 3600RPM HDD's.
Other than needing to be patient using one in a backup role should I anticipate any problems with SuSE 9 or 9.1?
My concern is potential time-outs or the like.
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I agree that Fry's customer service can suck - though I've noticed its gotten better at the Phoenix area stores lately. I much prefer to deal with New Egg, Monarch Computing or one of the other reputable mail order companies - or the CompUSA that is close to me. Worse - more than once I have gotten home and found the wrong memory stick in the "sealed" package and had to drive the 22 miles back. I now religiously check all product before I leave the parking lot. OTOH, in today's ad in the Phoenix, AZ newspaper Fry's is advertising the 120GB Western Digital 7200RPM 8MB cache hard drive in retail packaging for $59.99 ($89.99 minus $30 mail-in rebate). After dozen's of hard drive purchases for myself and customers, I've never failed to get a rebate. That's hard to pass up, if your $ come dear. I am not disagreeing with your experice, just giving mine. I guess everone's mileage may vary. - RNM -----Original Message----- From: Carl William Spitzer IV [mailto:cwsiv@myrealbox.com] Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 5:15 PM To: SuseLynuxEnglish Subject: RE: [SLE] 3600 RPM Drive Too Slow? WARNING Frys ripoff bait (rebate) dont work. three times I did everything they said and three times no rebate. never count on them. I am not alone in this experience. The site below has more. Rip Off Report:Columbia Telecommunications Group rebateripoff. www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff90554.htm Look only at the price without the rebate. CWSIV On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 21:46, Richard Mixon (qwest) wrote:
Not really what you're asking, but I see the 120GB and 80GB Western Digital and Hitachi 7200 RPM drives with 8MB buffers on sale at Fry's Electronics for $48 and $58 ever other week. Might save you some headaches for a few $ more. You have to send in a rebate coupon, but they run the same add every two weeks.
-----Original Message----- From: dmc [mailto:kd4e@verizon.net] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 8:08 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] 3600 RPM Drive Too Slow?
I have found a source of cheap ($20.) 120GB 3600RPM HDD's.
Other than needing to be patient using one in a backup role should I anticipate any problems with SuSE 9 or 9.1?
My concern is potential time-outs or the like.
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Richard Mixon (qwest) wrote:
I agree that Fry's customer service can suck - though I've noticed its gotten better at the Phoenix area stores lately. I much I am told by my brother in California that one must be a "fry's savvy shopper" to survive that place. I have heard lots of complaints and have seen several web sites like http://www.despair.com/demotivators/fryselor50ap.html A coworker just told me that a Fry's opened here in the Atlanta area last weekend so I don't know whether to be happy or not.
Damon Register
On Thursday 03 June 2004 19:08, dmc wrote:
I have found a source of cheap ($20.) 120GB 3600RPM HDD's.
Other than needing to be patient using one in a backup role should I anticipate any problems with SuSE 9 or 9.1?
My concern is potential time-outs or the like.
The speed of rotation is not the only or even the primary determinant of drive performance. You've been reading too much marketing hype. Go find the spec sheet and see that the sustained transfer rate and average seek time is. Timeouts are highly unlikely.
Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 03 June 2004 19:08, dmc wrote:
I have found a source of cheap ($20.) 120GB 3600RPM HDD's. WOOT?! $20! Name, brand, specs, where, quick! :-) Wanna build my terrabyte storage server at home. Thanks.
http://www.icd.com/hdrives/ You know if I could get the wood-chip dust out of my eyes and read clearly I'd have noticed the difference between the 120MB and 120GB! Here I was thinking that they were dumping $190. drives for $20. - $40. because they were slow and used ... and they are, but they are also dumping them because they are uselessly small! But who would pay as much as $20. for a 120MB HDD? You cannot give those things away! Looks like $89. plus shipping for a decent new 120GB, no sources I could find for used that were price effective. Sorry to waste the bandwidth. If it sounds too good to be true ... sigh. -- Blessings ... dmc West Central Florida ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This E-mail was generated using SuSE 9.0 Linux & Mozilla. This PC is free of all Microsoft products. Visit: www.suse.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Friday 2004-06-04 at 12:50 -0400, dmc wrote:
But who would pay as much as $20. for a 120MB HDD? You cannot give those things away!
They can be used for very old computers (386), to use as firewalls, for example. I needed one a year ago, and the smallest I could get was 1.8 Gb. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
* Carlos E. R.
The Friday 2004-06-04 at 12:50 -0400, dmc wrote:
But who would pay as much as $20. for a 120MB HDD? You cannot give those things away!
They can be used for very old computers (386), to use as firewalls, for example. I needed one a year ago, and the smallest I could get was 1.8 Gb.
Shame... I just opened a 120MB for my GrandSon to take to summer-school for a show/tell project class. Nothing wrong with the drive except the size. I probably have 10 or 12 that I have replaced in friend's/neighbor's/client's computers during upgrades, etc. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos
HI all... On Saturday 05 June 2004 14:49, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2004-06-04 at 12:50 -0400, dmc wrote:
But who would pay as much as $20. for a 120MB HDD? You cannot give those things away!
They can be used for very old computers (386), to use as firewalls, for example. I needed one a year ago, and the smallest I could get was 1.8 Gb.
Personally I could use a HD of between 10-20gb. If any of you guys have one (or more) to trade, I have Linux software and/or over 1500 old time radio shows (in English) mp3 files for exchange. Email me off list if you are interested. Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 "Lighting the fires of Liberty, one heart at a time!" Badnarik for President http://www.badnarik.org ------------------------------------------------------ BayerWulf Linux System # 129656 The Recycled Beowulf Project Looking for throw-away or obsolete computers and parts to recycle into a Linux super computer WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2004-06-04 at 12:50 -0400, dmc wrote:
But who would pay as much as $20. for a 120MB HDD? You cannot give those things away!
They can be used for very old computers (386), to use as firewalls, for example. I needed one a year ago, and the smallest I could get was 1.8 Gb.
You don't even need a hard drive. There are some firewalls that can run from a floppy.
I thought originally that this was a fraud. I managed (I hope) to cancel an order that assumed GB, not MB. I was told that these drives are for old ATARI machines. Maybe this is true. Maybe not. Anyway. . . . --doug On Saturday 05 June 2004 08:49, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2004-06-04 at 12:50 -0400, dmc wrote:
But who would pay as much as $20. for a 120MB HDD? You cannot give those things away!
They can be used for very old computers (386), to use as firewalls, for example. I needed one a year ago, and the smallest I could get was 1.8 Gb.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Friday 04 June 2004 12:53, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 03 June 2004 19:08, dmc wrote:
I have found a source of cheap ($20.) 120GB 3600RPM HDD's.
WOOT?! $20! Name, brand, specs, where, quick!
Yes, please! Do they accept Euro's? Must be about the same amount...:)
:-)
Wanna build my terrabyte storage server at home.
Hmm.... Yes. :}}... Cheers, Leen
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Richard Mixon (qwest) -
Silviu Marin-Caea