New IDE Hard Drives

[Derek891]

I'm refurbishing my old P3 desktop and came across a website that has new IDE drives at very reasonable prices and with 1 year warranties. Anyone who is pursuing a similar project might want to look here:

 

http://www.goharddri...tegory-s/23.htm

 

I've already ordered the 120GB Maxtor for $19.95 US. Hopefully it will last as long as my original 20GB Maxtor, which is 14 years old and still working well (I have just jinxed myself by saying that ). The only problem is, it's getting a little short on capacity, that's all.

[Winapp2.ini]

Yeesh- a 20GB drive still?

 

Just my steam library uses 629.7 GB

[Derek891]

I have two other machines that I use on a day to day basis. It has Win98SE installed and is not connected to the net. I use it to run Photoshop and use the scanner and printer I bought back then. HP has newer drivers for the printer, but newer drivers for the scanner are not available. Add to that the masochistic pleasure I got from dealing with Win98SE, and it's a match made in heaven.

 

Edit: Actually, part of the pain was self-inflicted. It was my first computer, I didn't know any better, so I followed Microsoft's guidelines for 98SE and installed 32MB of memory. What a mistake! All you had to do was look at it the wrong way, or sneeze, and you had a BSOD staring you in the face. I ended up installing 256MB of memory, all the problems went away, and I actually began to enjoy using that machine.

[nikki605]

Wow, great link - thanks. I do have one old P3 machine that belongs to my in-laws that I maintain. I'm surprised the HDD hasn't quit yet. When it does, now I've got an option.