On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:12:13 -0600, you wrote:
>When I opened the message, I found that Bruce Rice had written:
>
>> For a customer, I just put a 160gig drive into an external USB case and
>> partitioned it as two 80 gig drives. Works like a champ.
>> Now he can back up all that stuff he's been losing when his OLD 6.4 gig HDs
>> go ker-plunk.
>> The drive was a 5-year-warranty Seagate ($49 after rebate) and the external
>> case was $16 after rebate. Less than $80 for it didn't seem to be a bad deal
>> to me. I haven't tried it on a 16-mHz XT but I feel pretty sure it will work
>> on his new Dell. It did have an overlay CD with it, but wasn't needed.
>> :^)
>
>A Tech from Seagate told me that partitioning the drive wouldn't get
>around the 137 Gig limit. I thought that was "one" reason to partition
>a large drive (yes, I know some folks had rather partition them anyway).
>
>Was he correct?
>
>BTW, today, somewhere on-line, I saw a 300 Gig Seagate for $79.99.
>That's what I paid for the 250 Gig.
>
>When did Seagate acquire Maxtor?
About ten years ago!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jim
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