[LUNI] What to do with lots of ATA drives [was: External chassis suggestion]

[Martin Maney]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 07:04:56PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
> .. I have 8-10 ATA drives (all 7200 rpm, and ~ 100 gig) ...

> Any suggestions how to make use of these ATA drives would be most welcomed.

They'd make a modest space heater.  Or you could got for the hardcore
tech look - get some aluminium angle stock and build open-air stacks to
hold them.  Use with or without cabling depending on the desired
effect.  Or use polished brass stock and figured wooden bases for that
retro-tech look.  There are so many possibilities!

Best use I've ever seen for old disk drive: the drive display "table"
at Fermi's computing center.  A relic of the days when drives were the
size of washing machines, and had rather greater rotational inertia...

-- 
People are too impatient.  They want a three-line definition of
consciousness and a five-line proof that a computational system can
or cannot have consciousness.  And they want it today.  They don't want
to have to do the hard work ...  -- Aaron Sloman