On 03/03/2019 23:25, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 25/02/2019 20:35, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 25/02/2019 15:52, abueloeddie wrote:
Previously running several PC / M/S machinesÂ* They would fail
catastrophically and cost £££ each time to repair or replace.

Now ru8nning several PC/Linux machines. None havce failed
catastrophically although there is not much of this one left from
original. Its all been upgrade over the last 10 years. think the DVD
drive and case are original..


Trigger's Broom ....


Precisely.

The reason this one got upgraded was that the onboard ethernet got a bit
flaky, and it hated booting with a USB webcam plugged in.

So a new motherboard and RAM went in.

The drive had been SSDed some time before and it had fast graphics card
as well for real time games

The server just grew like topsy..it gets more and more disk added every5
years or so when the existing disks start to go flaky.

But at heart its an old XP era mnini tower notherbaord and RAM. You dont
need a lot of power in as a server, or RAM. Just disk slots.

a 386 era machine back in the day could fully saturate a 100Mbps
ethernet connection.


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