Nobody of your friends has got an external drive for such situations? I would backup all data temporarily to an external drive. Some time ago I didn't own such a drive, but after some phone calls one of my friend lend me a drive he owns just for such situations.
"the best approach" is to think how much the electricity bill is and how much it does cause pollution to use 4 old, instead of 2 new drives and how much 2 new drives cost. Depending to the usage one drive often isn't good for performance. I wouldn't through away those old drives , but still use them e.g. to have drives for temporarily backups in the future. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1389984189.5878.10.camel@archlinux
