11 Dec
2003
11 Dec
'03
8:12 a.m.
I wrote:
> However, given that no new 2.5- and 3.5-inch hard
drives are made with
> capacity lower than 40 GB, there's not really much point to trying to
> save storage space.
Sellam wrote:
WHo said you'd have to get a new harddrive for
this project? 1GB drives
are a dime a dozen (it's funny saying that). Even drives <10GB are
relatively easy to come by these days for cheap.
1. Even a 10GB drive is more capacity than is needed, so that's still
no reason to cripple the functionality by making the emulator decode
a particular dat format.
2. If I were to build one of these for myself (or as a product), I
wouldn't want to use some random old disk drive of questionable
reliability. In fact, I'd probably want to use *two* new disk drives
with mirroring.