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Hello Roy - 

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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. :-) 

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

If you are like me you have data and software dating back to
your 'begining' interest in computers. I have 100s possibly
1000s of 5 1/4" floppy disks from the old 360k format up to the
1.2meg format in boxes and am thinking a great deal of the data
is already lost (won't read). I have _one_ machine with a 5 1/4
floppy drive in it (an old 286) and am wondering how long it
would take me to transfer all of them over to CDs. The other
problem is how long the CDs will last if/when I do this. 

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

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