Reply 41 of 41, by creepingnet
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I still use old Hard Disks in my retro-setups, just too much of a hassle to go buying DOM, plus I like the extra capacity for my stuff.
Anything that's on it's way to dying becomes a disk for experiments with O/S and whatnot. That way if I do something stupid with it, no loss.
Good working drives are purposed based on speed, capacity, and what O/S will be using them. Anything MS-DOS 6.22 or older = 8GB>, Anything FAT-32 or newer = >8GB in my case.
Drives that are already dead.....never been much of a problem because in 16 years I think I've only killed 4 hard disks - a Maxtor 7120AT 124MB I ran into the ground till every last sector went bad, a 3GB Western Digital Caviar that was already on it's way out when I started using it, a 244MB Quantum ProDrive LPS from a HArd Card that was forced to be "Slave only" that I used to death until stiction killed it and caused a head crash, and the ever-catastrophic loss of data when my 1TB Seagate died 2 years ago taking a shit ton of stuff with it during a move, luckily a lot of it was on my Retro Computers of all places for backup 🤣
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