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So, I bought another computer yesteday

RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
edited 2013-07-02 23:20 in General Discussion
I really didn't need one but it was a pretty good deal. Ordered it at a little after 3 pm, chose the "economy (free)" shipping which usually takes about a week. UPS delivered it about an hour ago. I was almost speechless. Don't really know what I'm going to do with it yet. Linux Mint is installing at the moment, just because I had a disk for it and I need make sure everything is working.

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  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2013-07-02 10:51
    A Win8 laptop? Everyone's nervous and blowing those out. I bought a Toshiba from Staples when they were $300 per TonyP's forum tip. Very nice machine.

    Even though, like you, I didn't REALLY need it. :)
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-07-02 11:35
    RDL2004,
    You missed one important detail. What is it?

    A VAX a Cray anything interesting?
  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    edited 2013-07-02 13:58
    Ah, I was mainly commenting on the 20 hour delivery from the "4 to 9 days" shipping. The computer is nothing special. It's an HP ProLiant N54L Microserver. I already have one (well, an N36L actually), but they're pretty neat little machines, and since HP is coming out with an all new version and it's one of the ugliest computers I've ever seen, I thought I'd grab another one of these while I still could.

    I paid considerably less than the current Newegg price in that link. It was a "Shell Shocker" special for a few hours yesterday :)

    (and look I can spell yesterday correctly)
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2013-07-02 14:29
    Speaking of good prices, I bought my first 1 TB hard drive from Fry's. $59 for a Death Star, oops, I mean DeskStar by Hitachi. A Terrabyte. I never need to delete anything again, EVER! Ken, now I can hoard DATA too, in addition to relays, servos, and plywood.

    This is to replace a Seagate drive, which had my Win8 installation on it. It just wouldn't boot one day and was getting hot, so I got the new drive. I was dreading the Win 8 reinstall, expecting a bunch of grief from Microsoft. But I called their customer service line. After a brief wait, the sweet American girl assured that I just had to download it and reenter my license number. All went remarkably smoothly.

    Hopefully I can still grab my data off the old drive... From past experience that's usually the case. Maintaining computers is a whole hobby by itself sometimes. I'll have to try Linux someday.
  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2013-07-02 14:56
    erco wrote: »
    Speaking of good prices, I bought my first 1 TB hard drive from Fry's. $59 for a Death Star, oops, I mean DeskStar by Hitachi. A Terrabyte. I never need to delete anything again, EVER!

    erco,

    I remember when I got my first 100GB Hard Drive. I thought the same thing. So I started hoarding too. Humor pics, videos, etc. I saved the installers to programs. But then the video editing just filled it right up. Now I have 3TB in my Video Editing machine and a 2TB external backup drive. I have 2TB in my Quad-Core which has been relegated to gaming and other trivial stuff. I have multiple boot drives on that machine, but I still have an external backup. And then I have a 1TB NAS drive (Seagate BlackArmor) which also has an external 1TB USB backup connected to it. Can you tell I lost data once? Never again, but the video adds up when you're recording in 1920x1080 HD.
  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    edited 2013-07-02 16:32
    You can stick a 1 GB or whatever drive in the HP Microserver, install WHS 2011 (a stripped down version of Server 2008 R2 for a whole $50) and automate back ups of all your stuff. Apple or whatever. I got tired of it because it likes to write log files incessantly. Other than that, it's okay. You have to really beat on it to stop it from logging all the time. It's not good to be constantly writing to an SSD.
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2013-07-02 17:25
    Haven't tried the microservers from HP, but are familiar with their Proliant servers(from back when the series was introduced, and even the old SystemPro and Prosignia) all the way to G6 BL servers.

    My fave for small work has been the ML110 series(we have several of the G5 series still running with 2008R2).

    Did you get ILO in it?
  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    edited 2013-07-02 23:20
    No iLO, that's one of the things you get with the new Gen 8 version. Unfortunately the front door on the Gen 8 Microserver looks like it was designed by somebody's 6 year old kid. One of the nice things about these computers is that they don't consume a lot of power and, while not silent, they're still relatively quiet.
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