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Jun. 19th, 2007 01:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournSo after nearly 8 years, my file server finally kicked the bucket. I inherited it when Charybdis shutdown and I've kept it going over the years. The computer itself is ancient, even after upgrading to an AMD K6/233 MHz, 256 MB of RAM, a Voodoo 3 PCI video card, a software RAID array of 20 GB IDE drives, and has been running Windows NT 4 or Server 2000 for all that time. There is only about 3 GB total of data on it that is the sum total of all IP assets of my now many years defunct game company. That's not far from the size of main memory on modern PCs. There's only about 15 GB worth of data on the whole file server at this point.
The sad thing is that attempting to use as it a file server just slows everything down, MS updates kill the box every few months due to some SCSI incompatibility, and if I configured it as DNS it slows down my Internet connection horribly. The thing is a waste of a few hundred watts. I'm transferring the data off to a 164 MB SATA drive, and then wiping it. I guess I'll take the parts down to PC Recycle, but frankly I'm not even sure they would want it.
In related news, my main PC went all wonky. I took it as a sign, flattened the boot drive, and then installed my freebie copy of Windows Vista on it. I've set up Vista so many times at work that it's not been a big deal, although I'm mostly having trouble getting used to Office 2007 (purchased from the company store, but never installed).
While I'm in a Spring Cleaning mode about my computer setup, maybe I should get rid of the HP 520 printer that has been limping along since before the Charybdis-era (circa 1994). I rarely do any printing at home beyond taxes and the occasional MapQuest direction set, but something that is an autonomous TCP/IP device would be better than keep a super-crappy machine around as a printer server...
Of course, I'm not really looking to spend more money right now. Today was a very expensive day dropping a cool grand on my Honda's 105,000 service.
The sad thing is that attempting to use as it a file server just slows everything down, MS updates kill the box every few months due to some SCSI incompatibility, and if I configured it as DNS it slows down my Internet connection horribly. The thing is a waste of a few hundred watts. I'm transferring the data off to a 164 MB SATA drive, and then wiping it. I guess I'll take the parts down to PC Recycle, but frankly I'm not even sure they would want it.
In related news, my main PC went all wonky. I took it as a sign, flattened the boot drive, and then installed my freebie copy of Windows Vista on it. I've set up Vista so many times at work that it's not been a big deal, although I'm mostly having trouble getting used to Office 2007 (purchased from the company store, but never installed).
While I'm in a Spring Cleaning mode about my computer setup, maybe I should get rid of the HP 520 printer that has been limping along since before the Charybdis-era (circa 1994). I rarely do any printing at home beyond taxes and the occasional MapQuest direction set, but something that is an autonomous TCP/IP device would be better than keep a super-crappy machine around as a printer server...
Of course, I'm not really looking to spend more money right now. Today was a very expensive day dropping a cool grand on my Honda's 105,000 service.
