Adding another hard drive to the tower..?

[cosmicbrat]

What can you do with adding a second hard drive..? and how do you do it..?

[devils casper]

When you will add a new Hard disk, Ubuntu will detect its partitions. You can use those partitions for data sharing/storage. You can also use its space for Ubuntu OS.

[ptkobe]

As said by devils/and also

* you can make new partitions in it (with cfdisk, gparted, etc)

You can "add" the new partition(s) to your root tree with something like
$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /home/yourhome/photos
or put that info on /etc/fstab (see man fstab)

* wiith a second disk you can have raid 0 or 1
see man mdadm

* you can install a new OS on that disk (dual boot)

* you may use use the extra space to have a disk backup (with cp, rsync, svn or similar, backuppc,...)

Regards
Luis

PS: I forgot, if none of the above, you may then ship the new (even if old) disk to me

[cosmicbrat]

Do you need a better hd..?

[ptkobe]

Do you need a better hd..?

hehehe
I always have space for one more

[cosmicbrat]

I'm talking, that if you are destitute, and desperately need a hard drive, I supposed I could ship you a free one, but I wouldn't want you to abuse my kindness.. If you can acquire one on your own, then do it your way... Me thinks the Linux core community "should" maintain its needy honest Innocents with needed basics, if they can.. but there are those who abuse love... Greeds would slither out of the cracks to feed off Innocence.. It would never work... Plus you would need to pay the shipping, which would probably be twice the cost of acquiring an old hd from a pubic garage sale or flea-market...
Seems my love is trying to cash cheques that I can't back... like what i did in the grocery store last year.. I saw an elderly lady, probably a widow, obviously extremely poor, digging through the 50-cent dried soup packets for one she hadn't tried.. never to find a new one... I dropped a ten dollar bill by her feet, and got her attention.. "Excuse me, there's a ten at your feet.. you must have dropped it." I picked it up, and handed it to her, and strutted away with a grin that just wouldn't quit... Later to see her at the meat counter, with a grin that just wouldn't quit...
My pension is $200/month, and I handyman odd jobs.. I can't afford this, but i do it anyway.. It makes me feel good, and it makes others feel good.. That's a major part of the meaning of life within the brotherhood of Mankind...


In topic: I wonders if there is a free computer hardware pool for the poor..? Why is the system destroying things that could be given to the poor..?


Are you in desperate need of a hard drive?..

[ptkobe]

Dear cosmicbrat
I thank you for your kindness.
But I was just kidding (I put a smile on it both times)

Apart from being kidding, what I mean is that nowadays, and with linux/mdadm, you can always have use for more disks, to the limit of the motherboard connections.

Disk speed (transfer rates) is the bottleneck of some applications (also depends of how fast is your cpu and memory). So you may use raid 0 (spread the writing between 2 disks - or more) and increase your disk "speed" 50% - or more.

Note: Another thing to have in mind is the max speed of your disk connection - IDE/pata, sata, sata II, etc...

On the other hand, hdd's have a life time, and they eventually "die". With raid 1 data in copied to both disk, so if one fails, the other will keep your data. That and a backup schedule will keep your data safe, and the performance drop is often negligible.

Last, but not least, with more than 2 disks, you may have raid5, raid10 raid 1+0, n disks on a raid0 array, and so on.

If you are not familiar with it, google for raid and mdadm. Good doc is:
The Software-RAID HOWTO

Other good docs exist, but they may scare those new to the subject:
Linux Software RAID
Linux Software Raid 1 Setup

Bottom line, in my two towers I have
2x1TB sata (bought those a few weeks ago)
2x80GB ide
2x160GB sata
2x350GB sata

Hope this helps to you original question, wish you the best, brother.
Luis

[ptkobe]

I wonders if there is a free computer hardware pool for the poor..? Why is the system destroying things that could be given to the poor..?

Recycling and programs to give new cheap computers to the poor may be a better option, I ask?

I imagine recycling could contribute to such programs (don't really think it can yet, though)

Also, computer hardware evolved fast last years/decades.
I build my pc's, and when I stop using some part, it's either broken or realllly old, and they go straight to a city hall recycling basket (together with old TV's, DVD and cassette players and so on).

Not wanting to sound rude, giving a poor a old hdd may be a poisoned gift.

Just what came to my mind...