[Cialug] Good uses for smaller disks?

[Matthew Nuzum]

OK, thanks for the tips.

The overall impression I'm getting is that being clever and incorporating them into the storage pool somehow (either points 2 or 3) is a recipe for unneeded complexity and problems.

I still remember when 5Gb of storage was a lot so discarding effectively 400G of storage feels so wasteful. I have a usb case that I'll use with the 200Gb drive and I'll probably rob the magnets out of the other two.

Yes, recycling them by donating/selling/etc would be nice but I don't have high confidence that I can securely wipe the data without significant effort. I don't own any assault rifles and I don't think shooting them with the airsoft pistol will have any where near the same effect  not thrill.

The clock face idea is awesome, I wonder if I can make the hands look like the read/write heads...

On Dec 30, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com> wrote:

> Buy IDE to USB cables or external cases and use them as external storage.
> Or turn them into art.  But I do like the "shoot them" option. :)
> 
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>wrote:
> 
>> I've put some photos we want to keep on some and taken them to the safe
>> deposit box at the bank.
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Matthew Nuzum [mailto:newz at bearfruit.org]
>> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 09:32 AM Central Standard Time
>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
>> Subject: [Cialug] Good uses for smaller disks?
>> 
>> 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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