On 07/11/11 at 03:47pm, shawn wilson wrote: > On Jul 11, 2011 3:30 PM, "William Hopkins" <we.hopk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Don't get me started on not being able to find small HDDs anymore :P > > > > I've got some 40 meg hdd's on my shelf (think they're SCSI). I'll send you > one if you pay up front. I think they're about 8 lbs :)
Heh, I don't have any that small anymore. > But seriously, I've never had an issue with this. You can get a cf card or > (possibly SD card) controller you can boot from or possibly a new usb card > for that. SD cards are preettyy slow for booting. And not good for heavy writes. > However I've only done this once. In the industry, we use fc or iscsi hba > cards that allow booting off of a san. And pxe works in a pinch (or for > clients if you were smart about what and how you purchase). Which industry? I've done IT in the financial, retail, and tech industries and booting from SAN or PXE are not standard. My complaint was for home use, though.. these 500GB+ disks are just absurdly overkill for my uses. -- Liam
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