
With those disclaimers out of the way, I'd like to try something that hopefully allows people to contribute to shard without sacrificing integrity. There are a couple upgrades that would really benefit the shard. I'm going to be posting them over the next couple months (if all goes well with this first one). When we reach the goal, I'll end the fundraiser and purchase the equipment.
The first upgrade that I'd like to attempt is a SCSI hard drive and controller. This would give us two benefits: speed and reliabilty. SCSI drives are much faster than their IDE counterparts, and have big, fat 5 year warranties. The items I'm looking at will run about $250-300. I'm requesting Paypal as the contribution method. My Paypal account is laephis@yahoo.com . I'll keep everyone posted concerning our progress. Hopefully we'll have a new drive setup in a couple months!
