PasTim;670495 Wrote: > Sadly the discs on my old desktop are far too small, and buying new > discs for such an old IDE_based system (2003) that might fail soon for > other reasons doesn't seem like a sound investment. I have USB discs > but was given the impression that they wouldn't work too well as > primary (as opposed to backup) drives.
I picked up a used Dell desktop on ebay for 30 quid. It has a SATA interface 1GB RAM and P4 chip. I just happened to have a 1TB drive going begging which I popped into it and bingo :-) Try looking around the vortex box documentation and forums. I think you may be able to get your USB drives working http://vortexbox.org/ -- cliver SBS Version: 7.5.3 - r31792 SB Touch 7.5.3 - r9283 Squeezeplay 7.5.3 - r0 Win 7 Ultimate (64 Bit) SP1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliver's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43289 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90827 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
