Re: Does anyone else do this?

On 28 Aug 2005 13:57:06 -0700, djs0302@xxxxxxx wrote:

>When you build a pc do you buy spare parts for it so you'll be able to
>make repairs more easily without worrying whether or not a certain
>component has become obsolete? I have an 8 year old computer whose
>hard drive was failing. I still use it to connect to the internet It
>took me quite a while to find a replacement hard drive that was smaller
>than 8 GB. Anyway, I built a second computer last year and I didn't
>want to take any chances on not being able to find a new hard drive for
>it in case the current one failed. So I bought two of them. I
>installed one and the other I tucked safely away just in case I need
>it. Who knows, ten years from now hard drives may be totally different
>from what they are today.

Generally, it goes the other way for me. Upgrading leaves me with
extra parts and after awhile I throw together a PC to play with linux
or give to a computerless friend or even use as an MP3/CD player in a
spare room. But right off the bat buying spare parts, no. Although I
will say that during my build before my current one I bought two hard
drives and just backed up from one to the other regularly and then
backed up to cd less regularly. Had the main drive failed, I'd have
still had a drive to use.

Bob
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