[Cialug] Good uses for smaller disks?

[Tom Pohl]

I'd buy some cheap analog clock movements, take out the platters and turn them into clocks!

-Tom

On Dec 30, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> I found in my supply good IDE 80G, 120G and 200G drives. I have three servers (one is being decommissioned though, so two servers) that have IDE capability. They run VMs, for example, a Git server, Minecraft, Windows VMs for web testing, etc.
> 
> What would you do? My choices are:
> 1. Throw them away
> 2. Use them for application specific storage
> 3. Add them to the overall storage pool in some way
> 
> matt$ ssh arthur df -h
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1        67G   37G   27G  58% /
> 
> matt$ ssh ford df -h
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1        73G   23G   47G  33% /
> 
> matt$ ssh trillian df -h
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1       458G   70G  365G  17% /
> 
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