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   Lars Poulsen to rbowman   
   Re: Raspberry NAS, anyone?   
   18 Jan 25 20:04:38   
   
   From: lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com   
      
   On 2025-01-18, rbowman  wrote:   
   > On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 14:57:44 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:   
   >   
   >> Would anyone like a couple of smaller (say 200 MB) drives for repairing   
   >> antique systems that can't handle more than 32 bits worth of space?   
   >   
   > They're worth their weight in gold :)  Years ago I went looking for small   
   > drives and found they were extremely expensive compared to the current   
   > offerings. I went around to the local repair shops and asked if they had   
   > any old, small drives. 'No, we throw those in the dumptster. They're not   
   > good for anything'.   
      
   Maybe it would be worthwhile to re-format them and put them on eBay.   
   I looked, but searching for 200MB only got me newer drives with 200MB   
   of cache!   
      
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