Small hard drives, was Re: Tower of Nerd

Tue Feb 13 01:59:47 CST 2007

> From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>

>    Speaking of which...does it make sense to start preserving  
> (hoarding) older, low-capacity hard drives, be they IDE or SCSI, for  
> smaller machines?  They seem to be drying up fast.

I've been doing that for some time, and probably have about 50 or so stockpiled.
BUT, it may be just a waste of time. I put up 20 100-450 MB IDE and SCSI HDs on
VCM, then Ebay, and back on VCM more out of curiosity to see if there was a
demand. Right now, there doesn't seem to be.