From: TJ@noneofyour.business   
      
   On 11/13/2012 01:36 PM, TJ wrote:   
   > Just bought a 1TB external portable drive. Amazing how they can now get   
   > so much stuff on a drive the size of a wallet.   
      
   Good thing I bought the drive, and probably a good thing I went with   
   ext4. The 250 GB IDE drive I use daily started making disturbing noises   
   and operations slowed down, like it was throwing errors part of the   
   time. I've been through that before - it's on the way out. That's what I   
   get for buying a used drive on eBay, I suppose. But I got three years   
   out of it, so I can't complain TOO much.   
      
   Anyway, I've made a backup of the data on the new external drive, which,   
   with the one I made last week on the old external drive, makes two.   
   Should be enough. I've stopped using it, and bought a replacement -   
   again on eBay, but an unused one this time. This time I got a 500 GB   
   SATA drive. (I bought the IDE drive for my old motherboard, which didn't   
   support SATA. My present mb does.)   
      
   So I'm going from two IDE drives to a single IDE and a single SATA.   
   Should be interesting to see what kind of hoops I have to go through to   
   get this up and going. You'd think there wouldn't be any, but in my   
   experience with computers there's always something just waiting to trip   
   up clueless types like me.   
      
   TJ   
      
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