Re: New UDB Drive

Marc Singer (elf@netcom.com)
Wed, 30 Oct 1996 20:28:20 -0800 (PST)

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> Since I have bought the box this way, and I cannot use it without a hard
> drive, I am wondering if I would be better off to not install an internal
> drive at all, and just buy an external hd to hook up to it. Portability
> isn't a necessity for me, but I thought it might be kind of nice. Also
> I'm wondering how big of a hard drive is big enough. obviously the
> answer is always "buy as big of a hard drive as you can afford". I
> wondering what the approximate amount of disk space taken up by red hat
> linux and x windows is. I will then be able to guage how big of a hard
> drive is reasonable for me to buy.

I've run GNU/Linux on machines with as little as 200MB drives. My
main machine, with archive of net software and some big open-spaces
for development, has a little more than 4MB on it. Two are plenty
unless you want to store a lot online. Probably, you'll be happiest
buying fast over big.

-- Marc Singer

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