Davel23

I buy manufacturer refurbished drives from serverpartdeals.com. They come with a 2 year warranty but I’ve never had a problem with any of them.

Reminds me of a setup I had for local serial multiplayer on my Atari ST. I had cable going from the ST’s 25 pin serial port to a 9-pin connector, a gender changer, a null modem module, then 9-pin back to 25-pin. But hey, it worked.

If you launch a game through Steam and there’s an update available for it, then Steam will force the update before it will run the game. Some games can be run by navigating to its install directory and running the executable directly, that should bypass any updates but will not work for all games.

There’s something like this in Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.

Yes, flash memory has limited writes, but what are you doing with your USB drives that they fail? I have at least one from 2005 that still works fine.

I have six 14TB drives in my NAS from serverpartdeals. Never had a problem with any of them.

Serverpartdeals.com is my source for attractively-priced manufacturer refurbished drives.