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- Oct 18, 2002
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- Los Angeles
I bought a 4TB drive to replace my old drives, and I'm going to have a bunch of old drives lying around and was wondering what to do with them, they are:
1TB Western Digital
1TB Seagate
1.5TB Seagate
500GB Samsung
300GB Maxtor
150GB 10,000rpm WD raptor
Alltogether they would make up roughly 4.45TB. What would you guys do? I'm thinking of setting up a JBOD linear array and use these drives as one large backup disk with an older computer setup that I have (backup fileserver), I'll keep it turned off whenever I'm not running a backup to keep the drives from wearing down... that way whenever I come across another disk I can add it to the others and expand the storage....
Is this a good idea? What do you guys do with your old small drives?
1TB Western Digital
1TB Seagate
1.5TB Seagate
500GB Samsung
300GB Maxtor
150GB 10,000rpm WD raptor
Alltogether they would make up roughly 4.45TB. What would you guys do? I'm thinking of setting up a JBOD linear array and use these drives as one large backup disk with an older computer setup that I have (backup fileserver), I'll keep it turned off whenever I'm not running a backup to keep the drives from wearing down... that way whenever I come across another disk I can add it to the others and expand the storage....
Is this a good idea? What do you guys do with your old small drives?