PBW in the market for some new hardware

geoschmo · #1 April 13th, 2006, 11:27 PM

Fancy video card isn't really neccesary. I don't even have a monitor hooked up to it most of the time. I haven't looked at the specs on the MB Thermo is sending yet, but if it's got any sort of onboard video that will likely be sufficent.

I'd like to get a good writeable CD or DVD drive so I can start doing more regular backups. Those have really come down in price lately though so that shouldn't be too hateful for me to get on this end somewhere if noone has one.

I'll have to look at the memory in the current server. If that's what we need I could always move that over.

I'm guessing the box Thermo is sending already has a power supply in it.

The current server has a 40GB HDD, and I think Thermo said the new one will have two of those. I think that will probably be more then enough hard drive for the foreseeable future.

Of course donations are always accepted if anyone would like to do something like that Slykny.

Geoschmo

bearclaw · #2 April 14th, 2006, 12:49 AM

Floppy Drive yes, and possibly a CD-RW too. Not sure but I may even have a larger HDD that's not being used too. I'll check what I have when I get back home (on vacation right now).

I've also got some RAM sticks but I'm not sure what I've got until I get home to check too. I have a feeling that they are smaller though 256 max. But they are DDR.

Thermodyne · #3 April 14th, 2006, 01:46 AM

A thought on the hard drives...We really don't need to put PBW on used drives. Most data loss is caused by failed IDE hard drives. So if you have a new drive, that would be cool. But a used drive with unknown amuont of hours on it is asking for trouble.

What would be really nice if if someone wanted to kick in a little PCI raid card. Then Geo could set the drives up in a mirror. Something like a little Fasttrack 2000 would work great.

geoschmo · #4 April 14th, 2006, 11:14 AM

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A thought on the hard drives...We really don't need to put PBW on used drives. Most data loss is caused by failed IDE hard drives. So if you have a new drive, that would be cool. But a used drive with unknown amuont of hours on it is asking for trouble.

With 80GB HDD's going for 50 bucks these days, you are probably right it makes sense just to buy a new one.

I can get another licensed copy of an operating system, so that's not a problem.

TurinTurambar · #5 April 14th, 2006, 11:34 AM

Oh, good. Cuz I was just going to offer my brand new OEM copy of XP-Pro SP2.....

.... and I really didn't want to!

TT

Slynky · #6 April 14th, 2006, 12:04 PM

Geo, that PayPal thing still working? I opened my PayPal account back up about half a year ago, so I can digitize that $50 for you later.

geoschmo · #7 April 14th, 2006, 07:28 PM

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Geo, that PayPal thing still working? I opened my PayPal account back up about half a year ago, so I can digitize that $50 for you later.

The paypal account still works for sure. I believe all the paypal links on the PBW site do as well. Let me know if there's one not working though.

Thermodyne · #8 April 14th, 2006, 05:26 PM

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With 80GB HDD's going for 50 bucks these days, you are probably right it makes sense just to buy a new one.

I can get another licensed copy of an operating system, so that's not a problem.

Ok system is ready to go, will ship it out next week.

For those needing to see things for themselves...see attached.

I put a pair of 40gig drives in it, they were imaged spares and have less than an hour of use. So you are good to go on drives. The system itself probably has about 50 hours if that. This was a demo system, showed it to several clients and I ended up building 175 of them. It's kind of funny, when I ordered the cases, I did a bulk purchase. They came on palets, with cardboard shrink wrapped around the whole stack, no indivirual boxes. I got home one day and it was sitting in the driveway! I was worng on the ram, I had pulled it at some point in the past. I scrounged up a 256 meg stick of ddr 333 to get you going. Memory is like beer around here. If it isn't being used by someone, it walks off. You can pick up a pair of 512 ddr 400's for less than 70 bucks. You'll need a CD reader (writer would be nice, then you could ghost it to cd's. And a floppy reader. For what they cost, perhaps some Empire will spring for new ones and write it off to foreign aid.

Memory
Burner
FDD

Thermodyne · #9 April 14th, 2006, 05:31 PM

Here's a look at the back. It should have everything you need. LPT-Serial-LAN-PS2-Sound-IR-Video-and a bunch of USB.

geoschmo · #10 April 14th, 2006, 07:14 PM

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Here's a look at the back. It should have everything you need. LPT-Serial-LAN-PS2-Sound-IR-Video-and a bunch of USB.

Looks like the only thing missing is the dust. How do you make your computer work without all the dust on the back? I thought that was a requirement.