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On Mon, 22 May 2006 17:18:04 -0400, Samuel Baldwin wrote: |
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> I'm planning on buying a 300GB HD from maxtor for my next primary HD. |
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> It's a "Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 3.5" IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM" |
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Great! |
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I have a 200G primary and 80G secondary drive. Both IDE. |
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Here are my comments. |
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Well, I would up your PS to at least 400 Watts. Not that the drive would |
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use it, but most newer CPUs need at least 400. |
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While I understand the other poster's concern for the size of the drive, |
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I disagree. It's a reality today, that data is large -- music files, |
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videos, etc. What _I_ do, is have a second drive installed and backup to |
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it compressing the data. With the large music files, I offload |
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periodically to DVD. I backup / once a month, and I back up /home every |
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night incrementally, weekly incrementally, and full monthly. Good disk |
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organization is very important with a large drive. Consider splitting your |
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system and data into partitions. Here's my layout in case you're |
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interested. |
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mars linux # mount |
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/dev/hda5 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime) |
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/dev/hda6 on /mnt/tmp type reiserfs (rw,noatime) |
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/dev/hda7 on /home type reiserfs (rw,noatime) |
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/dev/hda8 on /mnt/src type reiserfs (rw,noatime) |
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# I keep portage, and other source files on hda8 |
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/dev/hda9 on /mnt/w-dos type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail) |
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# some old windows and dos and wine stuff here |
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/dev/hda10 on /mnt/download type ext2 (rw,noatime) |
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# misc software downloads and patches (mostly windoze) |
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/dev/hda12 on /mnt/music type ext3 (rw,noatime) |
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# 60GB of various music files (a lot of live recordings |
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# in lossless formats) |
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/dev/hdb5 on /mnt/extra type ext2 (rw,noatime) |
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# hdb is my backup drive for all except the music. |
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#hda11 is not shown, but that's my trusty slackware partition |
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Good luck! |
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Peter |
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