Space, the Final Frontier

[billroper]

In this case, disk space.

My aging IBM 6223 at work has what was for its time a very nice 135 GB SCSI drive. Unfortunately, given the number of things that it has to store (because we have a lot of customers running a lot of different releases), it has become woefully inadequate. The machine will not be being upgraded to something better, because Oracle expects its employees to be using their desktop as a terminal working on a remote server. This doesn't match up extremely well with doing Windows application development.

So we're now into the realm of home-brewed (but approved by my manager!) upgrades to the system. I picked up a terabyte WD SATA drive at Fry's this weekend, plugged it into one of the two SATA ports on the machine, and -- after a bit of entertainment with the Diskpart utility -- now have an empty terabyte of disk space waiting to be filled.

I notice there are also two empty memory slots on the motherboard.

Later.

Comments

[poltr1]

You know, of course, that the files will soon expand to the amount of drive space alloted to it. (I call it "Parkinson's Law of Data.")

Good luck with the new souped-up computer!

[billroper]

Thanks! I moved one directory from the old drive to the new drive and freed up 10 GB on the old drive. That felt good...