[TriLUG] Advice on hard drives for oldish machine

[Joseph Tate]

I can probably grab a couple of older IDE drives.  I have no idea as
to the size, but a coworker left a few for grabs.  I'm sure they're
small though.


On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:32:21 -0500, Rick DeNatale
<rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking at addingmore storage  to my IBM Intellistation M 6889
> (which is of about 1999 vintage).  I've started hosting a wiki using
> mediawiki, and I'm feeling the need to have more room for images etc.
> I'm considering adding two drives for backup purposes.
> 
> The machine has both SCSI and IDE support. If figure that I'm going to
> go with IDE for the additional drive(s).
> 
> Right now I've got two 9GB SCSI drives which I plan to keep. I've got
> a free 1" high bay for 3.5" drives. Since right now the machine has
> both a CD-ROM drive and a DVD writer. I could remove the CD-ROM drive
> to free up a 1.6" high bay which could hold either a 5" or 3.5" drive.
> Alternatively I suppose that I could remove the floppy drive.
> 
> All of this is a long way of asking for recommendations on IDE hard
> drives, preferably available locally.  Of course comments on the stuff
> above is also welcome.
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