Hi Peter,

>>So I'm also looking at these nice cheap HUGE ultra-66 jobbies, first as a C: drive but also as a place to backup stuff on the SCSI drive(s) I would have there.
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>Hi, Jim. See my message 008008 for a cheap Compaq machine with an Ultra 66. You can go bigger on the HD. No idea if you can hang a SCSI.
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>The only time I have lost a HD is when I added a Western Digital Caviar drive to an older DEC Pentium box. With this one exception my rule-of-thumb has been to buy an integrated system from a top-echelon manufacturer (Compaq, HP, IBM, Dell) and keep my hands off it. As I said, the only time I have ever had a machine fail is when I violated this rule.
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I had gone over 7 years without a drive failure until the last 14 months. I went from 'these things are indestructible' to 'oh oh is it going again'.
And as I said, seems impossible to configure this way at DELL.

>I know, magical thinking, but it works for me.
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>Why not keep your old systems as they are and network them.
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I have 2 reasons for not doing so:
1) my daughter's monitor is flakey and I worry for my grand daughter's eyes, so I'm thinking to get a full new system and disassemble the oldest of the 2 I have, giving her the monitor and adding the 2 SCSI HDs to the new system.

2) I don't have room for a third. 2 are already networked.

Thanks for the input,

Jim N


>Peter Robinson