I am attempting an “in your face” to my youngest who wasted his summer wages trying to build a gaming PC. He was not static safe.
A person could source a PC carcass off CL for near no cash. I tried the used computer store, but they seem to put all the e-cycle stuff on a pallet and ship it to china for tear down and gold recovery. Second choice was going on Freecyle and posting a need for out of date computers to be used as training wheels for PC builds. Tear down and rebuild ad infinitum until you feel confident. I picked up five boxes that could run Win7 or Vista. Some have built in RAID and Core iX or AMD AM3+ boards. FOR FREE!! Just put your disks in for making that NAS clay monroe redgh...@comcast.net > On Oct 9, 2018, at 5:54 AM, Dan--- via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Just a generic PC I built out of parts. Basic i7 processor I had laying > around, although you could certainly use something less powerful. Motherboard > with a RAID controller, 12GB of RAM, four 2GB hard drives, two 1GB hard > drives and a 128GB SSD for a boot drive (again, major overkill but I had it > on the bench.) The hard drives came out of my “failed” Drobo and have been > working just fine. I think I’ve had one failure of a Toshiba drive and it was > still under warranty. > > With a ZFS encrypted RAID 5 array I think I have around 6GB of space or > thereabouts. > > Hot swappable drives, serious security and redundancy, based on a FreeBSD > kernel, this thing has been rock solid since I built it. > > I’ve had media stuff on it, specifically Plex, but no one in the house really > seemed interested in using it, so I blew it away and recovered the space for > my Time Machine volume. > > -D _______________________________________ http://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
