Disk hardware emulation, was Re: Grandfather system RTE6/VM?

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Thu Dec 11 16:12:29 2003

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.
Received on Thu Dec 11 2003 - 16:12:29 GMT