BTW – everytime I write a blog entry I hear Garrison Keller in my head talking about Lake Wobegon.

My Dell deskop I bought back in 2000 as developed a more disk problems. My last upgrade was a SATA controller card and a 250G drive. It’s the original drive (ATA) that’s dead. I could just get another drive, but given the low price of desktops, I’ve decided to pick up a new Dell.

My Inspiron 318 is $2000 cheaper than the last one. It’s pretty much Dell’s bottom-of-the-line, but the advantage of running Linux is that low-end machines work just fine. I’ll stick my 250G SATA drive in it and end up with 500G. It’s main use is going to be as a file server, so it should do that just fine.

In other gear news, I’ve been running Time Machine on my Mac Mini. The backups combined with my DV home video has filled that 250G external firewire drive, so I need more disk there too. It’s become clear that the days of using removable media for backups are behind us. From here on out, it’s going to be keeping multiple live copies of files on hard disks.