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wooo I got a free 80gb hd!

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apac

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I manage a small windows lab at my university, and yesterday the linux backup machine's HD clicked and died. No big deal, the server is in no risk of dying, and there are maybe 100 megs of user files on it, if that many. So I talked to my boss about it and she gave me another HD that she'd requested from the tech dept. months ago but hadn't needed.

Since the old hd was small I didn't think twice about it but later I read the label and its an 80gb IBM! All I have to do now is scrounge up an old one to put in the machine that needs it 😀.

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Mmmk let me clarify. I updated the lab over the last month, it has 10 computers. Up until a week ago there were no backups, in fact there were no user files at all because the dumbass sysadmin before me didn't set up a fileserver. I finally configured the linux machine last tuesday and the damn harddrive died the next day. No, I was in no way at fault because I never opened the case, or moved it for that matter. If I had it my way, I'd put this HD in the server, and the 20gig thats in that one would go in the linux machine. But they don't want me to spend the time doing that for such an unused lab...so instead they waste over 70gb of space. By waste I mean it will be forgotten in that linux machine, it hasn't even been used in 2 years. It had Red Hat 7 on it before I updated it.
 
Ahh, I see. So, basically: You're stealing from your school, correct?

Your "technical solution" is technically correct: All you need is a functioning HD of great enough capacity to fit however many MBs are currently in use on the failed drive, and you pocket the new one.

Is it worth risking your grades/enrollment/tenure/reputation in your school for basically a $50 HD? I say no.

But you do what you want.

Daily, I have access to some VERY expensive things like SCSI drives, fiber channel raid cards, 1GB sticks of memory...I could make them disappear with little or no risk to me. Is it worth my job? My 401K? My pension? Hell no.
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Ahh, I see. So, basically: You're stealing from your school, correct?

Your "technical solution" is technically correct: All you need is a functioning HD of great enough capacity to fit however many MBs are currently in use on the failed drive, and you pocket the new one.

Is it worth risking your grades/enrollment/tenure/reputation in your school for basically a $50 HD? I say no.

But you do what you want.

Daily, I have access to some VERY expensive things like SCSI drives, fiber channel raid cards, 1GB sticks of memory...I could make them disappear with little or no risk to me. Is it worth my job? My 401K? My pension? Hell no.
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I concur
 
Heh actually I half posted this thread to guilt trip myself into not using it.

The only thing that really bothers me is that this thing will go to absolutely no good use. It's going to sit in a basement lab, one that all of 30 people know about, on a 200mhz machine that can't use 1/8th of the space and is never used 🙁.
 
Originally posted by: apac
I manage a small windows lab at my university, and yesterday the linux backup machine's HD clicked and died. No big deal, the server is in no risk of dying, and there are maybe 100 megs of user files on it, if that many. So I talked to my boss about it and she gave me another HD that she'd requested from the tech dept. months ago but hadn't needed.

Since the old hd was small I didn't think twice about it but later I read the label and its an 80gb IBM! All I have to do now is scrounge up an old one to put in the machine that needs it 😀.
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That you would consider a drive dying in a data backup server "no big deal" is alarming in and of itself,you pocketing a new HD for yourself instead of using it to protect the data you are entrusted to look after is horrible, turn in your geek card at once !
 
Originally posted by: apac
I manage a small windows lab at my university, and yesterday the linux backup machine's HD clicked and died. No big deal, the server is in no risk of dying, and there are maybe 100 megs of user files on it, if that many. So I talked to my boss about it and she gave me another HD that she'd requested from the tech dept. months ago but hadn't needed.

Since the old hd was small I didn't think twice about it but later I read the label and its an 80gb IBM! All I have to do now is scrounge up an old one to put in the machine that needs it 😀.
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:thumbsdown:
 
Originally posted by: Geekbabe
Originally posted by: apac
I manage a small windows lab at my university, and yesterday the linux backup machine's HD clicked and died. No big deal, the server is in no risk of dying, and there are maybe 100 megs of user files on it, if that many. So I talked to my boss about it and she gave me another HD that she'd requested from the tech dept. months ago but hadn't needed.

Since the old hd was small I didn't think twice about it but later I read the label and its an 80gb IBM! All I have to do now is scrounge up an old one to put in the machine that needs it 😀.
Click to expand...

That you would consider a drive dying in a data backup server "no big deal" is alarming in and of itself,you pocketing a new HD for yourself instead of using it to protect the data you are entrusted to look after is horrible, turn in your geek card at once !
Click to expand...

Mmmk let me clarify. I updated the lab over the last month, it has 10 computers. Up until a weeks ago there were no backups, in fact there were no user files at all because the dumbass sysadmin before me didn't set up a fileserver. I finally configured the linux machine last tuesday and the damn harddrive died the next day. No, I was in no way at fault because I never opened the case, or moved it for that matter. If I had it my way, I'd put this HD in the server, and the 20gig thats in that one would go in the linux machine. But they don't want me to spend the time doing that for such an unused lab...so instead they waste over 70gb of space.
 
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