On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 09:24 -0400, Dusty Phillips wrote: > 2008/10/20 Dale Blount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I think we should look into upgrading our disks. Dale, could you look > >> into pricing and complexity of doing this? I know you mentioned that > >> gerolde has no extra slots, so we're have to do an actual upgrade... > >> Details would be appretiated > >> > > > > 300GB 80pin Ultra 320 drives are about $400 each. Downtime would be > > several hours to complete the upgrade work (disk copy, expand > > partitions, expand filesystem, and probably an -Syu), and we'd want to > > make sure we had a complete backup before beginning. > > If y'all are willing to weight until I sell out of USB keys, I can buy > the drive out of schwag income. > > Any chance of selling the old drive or is it just scrap?
Just to be clear - we're using a mirror, so we'll need 2 of the drives. We could probably sell the old drives, but new ones of the 10k 146s are going for just over $100 each and used ones for much less. Dale
