For a desktop machine I'd go with something like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/175874607658?hash=item28f2f18a2a:g:T9EAAOSwkwNk8HHB&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA0FOsKwtEQnKBXTX%2BPQptGXq1l4%2FhmNsQzAnJTMJFwkKCP29Oi4k4WMHZaMlqj%2BUo3mGDbClGcnLxUxUBicauQGvy596OAt31SFCLIvzhrRNCqFf%2FdrxC7gDnkKtoCUXp6e%2B%2F0veOEUhJriSbegQfJiPxa1n%2FaitqJSJIIX3U%2B8wLdO9J9sIajWIQp5hAm95EA7scTe7yhvtwqdyprc9IUnbb30M43H7d2Y3cgBKgWF1w8wim6NsuIbZ3oAVVRzw2s98nExo7t2bUpWJFbUMioJI%3D%7Ctkp%3ABFBMtOfyrtVi
32GB RAM, the only thing I don't like is that its only a quad core processor. Probably plenty for a normal person looking to just do some regular computing. There are a bunch of them on eBay, some with more processor, less/more RAM, bigger/smaller drives. Pick one that fits your budget. For reference until last spring Angie's business ran on an HP XW8200 from pre-2005, as in I don't really remember how old it was but it can't be newer than that. I remember getting my boss to buy it. It was the first machine I ever used with SATA as standard. Cost around $3500 as I recall. -Curt On Monday, September 18, 2023 at 08:51:40 PM EDT, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: Can you point me to an example that might be a good deal? I have been out of the PC hardware game for a while and not sure what’s a good deal/spec these days. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 18, 2023, at 1:51 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Yup, an older workstation is totally the way to go. Right now I'd be looking > at an HP z4, they've been out for several years and several revisions using > that model number. Looks like good ones are around $250 on eBay for a machine > that would have been $1500-2000 4 years ago... > > Hard drives are not forever, 7 years is a good lifespan in full time usage. > As soon as they start to make any weird noises back up your data because the > end time is neigh.... > > -Curt > > On Monday, September 18, 2023 at 12:37:22 PM EDT, MB list etc via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > > > I've quit building my own and now buy used previous generation HP > workstations with the OS from eBay. Kurt suggested this a while back. I > installed a new SSD as the boot drive and use the HD it came with for data. > > > > > ------- Original Message ------- >> On Monday, September 18th, 2023 at 10:25 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> My PC appears to have crashed. This is a system I built probably 10 or more >> years ago, maybe much longer. And over the years IIRC have upgraded the MB. >> It had a 1.5tb HDD as well as a 1tb SSD. Over the last couple of months I >> have noticed a high pitched whining sound. Seemed to start and stop. This >> was coming from the SSD. It then got to where when booting the cmos wouldn’t >> even see the SSD. System seemed to boot fine otherwise. At one point in the >> last week system seems extremely slow to boot. I also ordered a deal where >> you can plug in drive to a device that connects to PC. With SSD connected I >> finally got it to recognize the drive but when trying to access, sits there >> and then gives I/O error drive not accessible. >> >> Installed SSD back in machine, same thing. Also, I have noticed that even >> without the SSD installed the main HDD is started and stopping all the time >> and takes forever to load windows. At the moment machine won’t even load >> windows, just goes into a repair then says not able to repair. Only option >> is to try to have to reinstall windows. >> >> Back to SSD, tried connecting it to a laptop and it shows the drive which >> appears to have 2 partitions but clicking on either one, it spins/loads for >> a few minutes. Strange thing is when viewing these drives in windows it >> doesn’t show capacity and free space. Eventually it basically says drive >> inaccessible. I need to recover this drive. Any ideas or software that might >> work? >> >> Point of the post. Thinking it’s time for a new system. Should I just order >> new MB, memory, hard drive etc, build a completely new system, or just buy a >> commercially prebuilt one such as HP etc? The prices of these seem so cheap >> these days and will already have OS installed maybe that makes the most >> sense? If I go this route I will then attempt to connect these drives >> externally to recover data. >> >> Anyone have any thoughts on this? >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> _______________________________________ >> 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 > > > _______________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________ 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
