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Originally Posted by gustavus

If I were selling hard drives I would pre load them with Ubuntu, to do a complete install and total format less than 30 minutes, use a common pass word on each drive that the buyer can change.

The nice thing about a Linux Ubuntu pre loaded drive being installed into a new computer is that the OS recognizes hardware changes on the first boot pressing F1 accepts the changes until the OS recognizes new hardware changes.

Or maybe even Lubuntu on some of the smaller drives? This way the end user could have the option to partition the HD and run Windows. I'm tinkering with Puppy and Lubuntu myself these days. Puppy on an IBM NetVista and Lubuntu on a Dell Dimension.

But in any event, I really like your idea.

Originally Posted by ron22

And 90% of the buyes would delete Ubuntu and Install windows or us it as a second drive.
Lets face it most people still use windows.

Let them do with as they wish, once they own it who cares what they run.

I have two HP XW8200 workstations running on Linux with another on XP only because my HP Z3200PS 44 inch printer has no drivers for Linux otherwise i would trash the XP computer.

Recently I changed the Video card in the XP machine then ended up having to call Microsoft to get another verification number, another half hour of my life wasted.

If MS would get rid of the, are you sure, or this software may not be safe BS, the OS is just as good as any other be it OSX, BSD, Linux or Unix.

Most people don't really do much with their PC other than visit social networks, or play a few games, in other words noting mission critical, any bank worth its salt uses Unix, heck even the Internet runs on either Unix or Linux, MS windows just cant cut the mustard when it comes to multitasking.

Too late. Windows has already molested my computer...

Originally Posted by Bear

If a drive successfully completes a low level format you can consider it a good drive

Not necessarily so, one of the SCSI drives purchased from fleabay the OS loaded fine but you could hear the bearings were on their way out. Fortunately the vendor is sending a replacement at no cost to me.

Sata spins at 7500 RPM, SCSI usually run at 10,000 rpm but there are 15,000 rpm drives as well, four or five years running in a commercial environment day after day is going to take its toll on the bearings.

This is why putting a screwed up hard drive in the freezer for a couple of hours sometimes will bring it back to life long enough to remove data, the cold shrinks the bearing making it tighter as long as it stays cold. Once it warms up your back to square one, so you better be quick recovering your data because the freezer trick doesn't always work.

Having come to the conclusion that previously used hard drives are nearing their end of life, I decided to purchase a brand new drive with a visible date of manufacture, no more used drives for me.


A used 146 gb SCSI sells in the neighborhood of $100.00 for an extra $30.00 I have a brand new one coming plus the replacement drive, which will be sound tested before i leave feedback.

Seagate 10000RPM Ultra320 SCSI 68pin 146GB 8MB Drive ST3146807LW 102645868936 | eBay