New External Drive

[owsf2000]

I was planning on picking up a secondary used computer to play around with. The place I was going to get it from however was asking about 100 more than I was willing to dish out. So instead I bought a new external hard drive. 1.5 TB.

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[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that if all goes well with my crap and that broken drive (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/291930.html) is still useable enough to copy stuff off of it, I might be able to maybe, I dunno, superglue that piece back on there or something and then resume using it as a normal secondary drive. If so, that'd give me 1.28TB in the comp, not counting the 30GB drive in there now (though I think I'll just be taking that one out regardless, because I never put anything on it even now) or the 1TB external (which is only used as a backup, or at least it would be if I remembered to actually use it as such and not just let it sit there gathering dust).

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

This drive I bought is a Seagate 1.5TB drive. I've been told by some people that Seagate's 1.5 drives are "wonky" or otherwise unreliable. I don't know if that's true, but I'm going to hope that everything goes well with it. I'm only going ot be using it for backup of stuff that's ultimately "nonessential" anyway. Like storing the rips of my music CDs. If the drive fails, I can still re-rip'em - it'd just be a pain in the butt to do so.

I'll probably be putting the linux isos on it as well since those can be easily reobtained in a pinch.