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new system (update)
I stuck a couple of spare drives in the Dell Precision T3500. Took a while to get it to boot (the monitor on the workbench does not like the video signal that the vid card puts out when you are in BIOS settings.)
Once I got it to boot, it took a fair bit of time updating windows (the drive hard Win 7 Pro on it, but fort very different hardware). Fortunately the case had a product key sticker on it, so after an initial complaint of a non-verified install, I managed to make Ms happy.
it performs scarily well. Of course, with a 6-core Xeon and 24 gig of RAM it *should*.
After checking prices, I decided to order new drives for it. A new BD-rw drive, a pair of 500 gig drives and a 2 TB drive.
They should all be here within a week. Of course, the 500 gig drives are going to be the last to arrive.
I can install the BD drive and the 2TB drive before then and get a head start on moving stuff over from the old system.
I'll do a fresh install of Win7 on the 500 TB (drive C:) and set one form of backup to use the other 500 gig drive (d:) to back that up.
The I get to set other sorts of backup to the NAS servers.
Oh yeah, I didn't realize one set of SATA cables went uner the motherboard to the other side, so it "only" has 6 SATA channels. One of which is the eSATA connector on the back of the motherboard. That still leaves 5, of which there's only room for 4 in the case (unless I want to put an SSD in the 3.5 "floppy" bay) Eventually I'll dig up another SATA to eSATA adapter. And put that in. Or not.
Struggling along on the old box while doing various things on the new one to clean up various things that the old one couldn't really handle.
Once I got it to boot, it took a fair bit of time updating windows (the drive hard Win 7 Pro on it, but fort very different hardware). Fortunately the case had a product key sticker on it, so after an initial complaint of a non-verified install, I managed to make Ms happy.
it performs scarily well. Of course, with a 6-core Xeon and 24 gig of RAM it *should*.
After checking prices, I decided to order new drives for it. A new BD-rw drive, a pair of 500 gig drives and a 2 TB drive.
They should all be here within a week. Of course, the 500 gig drives are going to be the last to arrive.
I can install the BD drive and the 2TB drive before then and get a head start on moving stuff over from the old system.
I'll do a fresh install of Win7 on the 500 TB (drive C:) and set one form of backup to use the other 500 gig drive (d:) to back that up.
The I get to set other sorts of backup to the NAS servers.
Oh yeah, I didn't realize one set of SATA cables went uner the motherboard to the other side, so it "only" has 6 SATA channels. One of which is the eSATA connector on the back of the motherboard. That still leaves 5, of which there's only room for 4 in the case (unless I want to put an SSD in the 3.5 "floppy" bay) Eventually I'll dig up another SATA to eSATA adapter. And put that in. Or not.
Struggling along on the old box while doing various things on the new one to clean up various things that the old one couldn't really handle.