CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

RJT>> but that's not the case for most of what I do here, which
RJT>> tends to bottleneck with communication speeds (both LAN
RJT>> and modem), and with storage space, which is why my next
RJT>> project is going to be the server I've started but
RJT>> haven't gotten around to finishing yet. 

CA>> 100 ten gig hard drives in a RAID configuration? ;-) 

RJT> Got _one_ that size so far, and it's IDE. Of SCSI, I have
RJT> a 4.3G, I think, and a bunch of 2G. And a full tower case
RJT> and a nice DPT card. Finding a SCSI cable that'll support
RJT> more than 4 devices is a bit more difficult than I'd
RJT> expected, so my plan at this point is to use the external
RJT> connector and run it back into the box, at least for now.
RJT> Donations of hardware will be gladly accepted,
RJT> particularly 10G or larger drives. :-) 

CA> This also relates to my other reply about finding media that will
CA> last and preserve our data.

Hence the combined reply.  :-)

CA> If you are like me you have data and software dating back to your
CA> 'begining' interest in computers. I have 100s possibly 1000s of 5 
CA> 1/4" floppy disks from the old 360k format up to the 1.2meg format 
CA> in boxes and am thinking a great deal of the data is already lost 
CA> (won't read).

Much of that old stuff is on 360s here.  Though I even have a whole box of
the 1.2s new,  still shrink-wrapped.

CA> I have _one_ machine with a 5 1/4 floppy drive in it (an old 286) 

Got one "pc" (this one I'm typing on),  but also a number of
other drives around,  not to mention all the cp/m boxes that have nothing
else.

CA> and am wondering how long it would take me to transfer all of them 
CA> over to CDs.

Maybe not as long as you might think.  That older stuff was much less bulkier.

CA> The other problem is how long the CDs will last if/when I do this.

That's not a problem I'm going to worry about.

CA> I'm not convinced that many people would care about what I have
CA> preserved on those floppies but I just don't like the idea of all
CA> that software fading away. :-( 

Yep.

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