[LinuxUsers] old drive or new...

[Jeff Lasman]

I'm rebuilding a core router today.

(It used to be FreeBSD but the contractor that built it is no longer 
available; I'm putting it on a targeted distribution of Debian from the 
debian-501-i386-netinst.iso.

It turns out the install is too large to fit on the 128mb flash drive I 
used to use.

The system is single-drive pata.

I've got (lots of) old drives taken out of service, from 40G up, that I 
can use, but I don't have service records on any of them <frown>.

Or I can drive to Frys in an hour or two and buy a new (smallest they've 
got) pata drive.

Based on your experience, which is more likely to give me good service 
in a core router?

Thanks for your valued input.

Jeff
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