Marc Farley challenged us storage geeks to wave our junk flags and reveal just how many computers we have. Well, I’m really not sure… Let’s see - in order of usefulness…
Networked:
- Dell XPS M1210 laptop (killer!) with 120GB internal and 500 GB Western Digital My Book backup drive
- TiVo Series 3 with 250 GB (yeah yeah not yet upgraded)
- TiVo Series 2 with 140 GB
- Homebrew Celeron 4 desktop with 320 GB
- Wife’s Compaq laptop with 100 GB
- Sa-weet HP Photosmart all-in-one with no storage (but it’s networked!)
- Linksys 54G running Tomato (16 MB flasher!!)
- 2 3Com Audreys (16 MB flash bay-bee!)
- Old junker laptop with 10 GB
- Virgin Webplayer Internet appliance with 64 MB disk-on-chip
- Toshiba Portege booting from a 4 GB CompactFlash disk
- Homebrew AMD K6 system with 20 GB
So my network has up to 11 devices on it… Interesting!
Now for the rest of the machines:
- 40 GB iPod
- Nomad Jukebox with 20 GB
- Atari MegaSTE with 40 MB
- Atari 1040STFM with a floppy
- Atari 800XL with a floppy
- Oldest junkiest Dell 382SX-20 laptop with 20 MB
- AT&T PC6300 with 20 MB (my first PC)
- Broken Mac SE
There’s at least a terabyte and a half right there… Plus my collection of odd hard disks - just today I was marveling at the fact that I have 50 MB, 500 MB, 5 GB, 50 GB, and 500 GB hard disks!
Yeah, we’re nuts.
Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat :: Where is Linux in Storage? | 17-Dec-07 at 5:46 pm | Permalink
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