Funny that you mention Freecycle, as that’s where I got the processor and memory. I bought the motherboard and case.
Something I learned a long time ago - don’t buy cheap cases. I got tired of my hands ending up like hamburger meat after working with $40 cases. For maybe twice that you can get a case that’s far better and they even deburr all of the edges. -D > On Oct 9, 2018, at 3:35 PM, clay monroe via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > 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 Freecyle and posting a need for out of date computers to be used as training 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 > _______________________________________ 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
