Small hard drives, was Re: Tower of Nerd

YES!!!! Several years ago (around '98/99), the most "valuable" Hard drive in my collection was a 20MB SCSI HD, as it allowed me to transfer some software onto my PDP-11. It was the *ONLY* SCSI HD in my collection that was smaller than 100MB (IIRC, I needed 30MB or smaller). For the past several years I've been collecting 2GB Seagate Barracuda Narrow SCSI drives when I can find them, as well as other small Narrow SCSI drives. As I hope to be able to have enough to outlast my PDP-11's, Amiga's, and Atari TT030. For my VAXstations, I've got 40+ StorageWorks drives, as well as plenty of StorageWorks shelves and fans. I'm also collecting large capacity SCSI drives for my Alpha's, Sun's, and SGI O2's. I probably have enough EIDE drives for my PC's and PowerMac G4. I've quite honestly not given this as much thought as I maybe should. I even have a few RD52's, 2 RD54's, and a couple ESDI drives. I've even saved the dead RD53's I have, but haven't had a chance to try to revive them. Also take a look at spare powersupplies, fans, and any strange CD/DVD-ROM requirements (such as 512-byte block SCSI). If you use external disk enclosures, it would be a good idea to have spares of them as well. Spare floppy drives are also a good idea. Yes, I've given this some thought over the past 10 years, and have been stock piling all of that time. I just hope I don't have anything that is the equivalent of the DEC RD53 drives in my spares collection! My big concern in the coming years is likely to be suitable monitors for various systems. Zane