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Date:	Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:27:02 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Looking forward to the new & improved installer)

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> >Well, this 80G. drive has 18 partitions, 5 of them bootable.

Larry Tawa wrote:

> 18 partitions and 5 bootable on *one* hard drive - impressive. "Keep all
> your eggs in one basket?" What happens if bad luck happens and that *one"
> hard disk fails - oh your backups...........

> IMO say if you split the above onto say 3 hard drives with mobile racks

This happens to be the Shuttle XPC (a Small Form Factor or mini-PC -- a bit
smaller than two standard shoeboxes). It has *one*, non-accessible H/D bay,
plus room for one optical drive, and one FDD *or* built-in flash-card
reader. The extremely tight inside real estate, puny power supply, and
cooling issues rule out anything beyond that. Video, sound, LAN, etc. are
chips built-in to the mb. If there can be only one H/D, and you still want to
run multiple OSes, you're kinda stuck . . . .

The full-size tower has long had two H/Ds. Its next iteration may well go to
swappable drive trays.

Jordan

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