Subj : New project
To   : August Abolins
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Sun Feb 28 2021 17:20:56

Hello, August!

Replying to a message of August Abolins to Sean Dennis:

 AA> The phrase "unused WD 2TB drive" is a shocker.  Had you upgraded   to
 AA> using 4TB or 8TB units?   Must be nice to have unused 2TB   drive.

Nope.  People just give me computer equipment.  Normally I take a look at the computer, strip it for parts, and get rid of the rest.  My BBS computer has a 160GB drive for ArcaOS and a 500GB drive for the BBS.

I haven't worked in over a year and haven't had an income then so no upgrading.  My Windows desktop is a HP EliteDesk 705 SFF desktop with a 1TB drive in it.  When I do buy a computer, it is normally an off-lease business desktop.  I'm considering moving the BBS to an actual server though: my HP ProLiant ML110 G6 tower.  I doubt I'll ever have a need for the BBS to be bigger than 500GB.

 AA> I'm still putzing along with two 250GB 3.5" external drives, a  
 AA> handful of aging thumbdrives of 1GB to 64GB capacity, and each  
 AA> everyone is filled with "important" stuff, and that's it.

I'm going to build myself a file server but I am waiting until I can buy another actual server to do that so I can put multiple hard drives in it.  I have seen 4TB hard drives for $60 recently and I think it was at TigerDirect.

I have a lot of backups, be it computer backups, backups of ISOs, and movies and music.  There's plenty of decent open-source file server software one can use.  

Later,
Sean

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