what m/boards people using? the gigabit boards look res. feature rich.
I will be going with an intel CPU this time....as I did last time as it happens.
Jeremy
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Subject: Re: [DUG-Offtopic] new PC
From: "John Bird" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, March 30, 2009 10:50 am
To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List"
<[email protected]>
Rather than RAID I tend to take a more minimal approach - reliable laptop,
no RAID, and image the entire HD to an external disk regularly. Can use
Acronis, Ghost, or Drive Snapshot.
I figure the downtime replacing a single HD in a lpatop is going to be a
few hours minimum no matter how its done.
Note the interesting part is restoring drive C if needed, I use a WAIK boot
DVD to do that. Works very well, only trick is that Microsoft make it as
difficult as possible to get this free dowload because they don't want too
many to get hold of it obviously. But its the best way I know to easily
access external disks if your HD windows is stuffed, or need to reinstall
working windows over a factory image recovery.
(The steps are roughly:
1 - find the download
2 - download a disk image 990MB
3 - Burn to a DVD/CD
4 - run the DVD installer to install WAIK
5 - use arcane command line options to create a bootable command line Vista
DVD
simple really...
).
John
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