In message <200001181523.IAA22136@lager.beer.org>, Herb Peyerl writes:
>seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)  wrote:
> > Wow.  I'm actually not as concerned about power saving as I am about disk
> > lifetime, for which I've been told spindown is almost always a loss.

>huh. IDE? Unless you've got some super fantabulous 34GB disk in that laptop,
>I'd suggest that when that disk dies, you could probably wander into the 
>local PC graveyard and pickup another one for close to free...

Yeah, but it's a real pain having to spend time on restores.  Especially for
the Windows side.  ;-)

>(I'm trying to scavenge enough disks to populate my sharks).

Makes sense.  For the laptop, I've got 6GB, and I'd honestly like to have
about 10-15.  (Partially because NetBSD has made the laptop a viable
replacement for most of my old gaming material, and I want to add about 3GB
of PDF's.)

-s