RE: [UUG/MLUG] Call for Donations

["Buford, Rick" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

with over 200 people, it wouldn't take much of a per-person donation to get
a big and fast IDE drive

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kris Bodenheimer [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 10:23 AM
To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
Subject: Re: [UUG/MLUG] Call for Donations


I would think that a very large, very fast IDE drive would be acceptable.
Its
not like MLUG is being used for anything CPU intensive where SCSI would be
of
great assistance to those other processes.  Like, who cares if everyone
checks
there mail at once and load gets high.  7200 RPM drives are the standard IDE
now.  I would recommend Quantum or IBM, maxtors and Western Digitals have
bad
reputations among many of us (Kris prepares flame retardant vest).   I would
be happy to pitch in some cash, lets see how many people we can get that
would
be willing to pay some.  Kris

Scott Greathouse wrote:

> MLUG's Friday-Saturday outage was caused by a non-permanent hardware
> failure. We have needed a new server for quite some time, and I think now
> is the time to act. In fact, later today I am going to go get a 13.6 GB
> Maxtor harddrive to replace the harddrives currently in use on MLUG
> unless...
> Who else out there has benefited from MLUG enough that a donation of new
> hardware to contribute to a new server is appropriate?
> And if you are one of those people, should we go with a SCSI system rather
> than IDE? If so, I will hold off on buying a harddrive.
> We can talk more about this at the next meeting, but I would like to know
> who can donate parts and what they would like to donate -- or how much you
> would like to give in cash.
> This is NOT tax-deductible.
> Oh, I also have a PCI video card that I got from Stephen Montgomery-Smith.
> Thanks,
> Scott