On Jul 12, 2012 9:40 AM, "Rick Knoble" <rickkno...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > A while back someone (Curt maybe) > recommended HP business class > work stations for good solid home > computers. What specific machine > would that be?
It's a bit lower spec than the machines Curt was talking about, but I have been very happy with an HP DX5150 as a general-purpose home server. Small, pretty quiet, easy to upgrade. I have SATA and USB3 cards in mine so as to run two big drives internally and connect to a fast external drive for regular offsite backups. It acts as a NAS for music sharing, does automated backups of all other machines on the network with BackupPC, and provides a TCP/IP print queue using a garage-sale laser printer on the parallel port. Not bad for $50 on fleaBay plus $200 or so to max out the RAM and drives. If the DX5150 can do all that as a server, it's more than enough for a single-user machine as long as you're not a gamer. Put 4gb of RAM in it, get a video card with HDMI out, a 1080p monitor (I like the ViewSonic VX2453 for a decent cheapie), install Ubuntu, and you are good to go for undet $500 all told. Alex _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
