From: TJ@noneofyour.business   
      
   On 11/18/2012 06:29 PM, TJ wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   That drive has been failing for quite a while now, making things   
   sluggish for months, I think. The secondary system I've been using the   
   last few days on the same hardware (except for the drive) is MUCH   
   snappier than my production system has been for a long time.   
      
   TJ   
      
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