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New(ish) Computer

July 12, 2008

My old server, and I use the word server loosely here, was a 2.8Ghz P4, 2GB RAM with a 1.5TB RAID5 array. The last time it saw an upgrade was about two years ago and it’s work load has tripled since then so I finally broke down and rebuilt it.

These are the parts, I bought and sold them all on eBay.

Parts bought for new machine	Qty	Price	Total
Biostar I945G-M7 MoBo	1	$47	$47
2.66Ghz Core 2 Duo CPU	1	$148	$148
1GB Kingston DDR2 RAM	4	$10	$40
1TB Western Digital HDD	4	$149	$596
Dell (LSI) PERC5 RAID controller	1	$39	$39
		Total	$870

Parts sold from old machine	Qty	Price	Total
Biostar P4M80-M4 MoBo	1	$20	$20
2.8Ghz Pentium 4 CPU	1	$26	$26
1GB Kingston DDR RAM	2	$8	$16
500GB Western Digital HDD	4	$80	$320
Pacific Digital ZL150 RAID controller	1	$15	$15
		Total	$397

In the end it only cost $473 and now I’ve got 3TB of space which should last a couple years.

The old machine was running Windows 2000 Server which as the name implies, is a little out of date. So I went ahead and put Windows Server 2008 (64bit) on the new one.

Pretty happy with it all so far.

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