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Post by animal on Oct 9, 2009 14:52:14 GMT -5
OK... I was telling Dolphie my plan the other day and wanted to update here while sharing the details with you all....
I happen to have loads of old cases, parts, and drives here at my house from over the past 2 decades. So, I wanted to make a storage workhorse machine to sit on my network. Plan was to load it with drives, carry the printer and scanner (shared), and even add to it a fax modem.
I dug out an old case with about 5 or more slots left for hard drives. After dusting it off, I hook it up and fire it up. BEEP BEEP BEEP.... wont run... ok, reset the chips and see what that does. Now it works, memory sticks must have oxidized. Hook it to an old CAD monitor I have (21 inch) and now I have a working machine that was my daughters way back when. It has XP on it, so it aint that old. I clean up the drives, get all the windows updates, defrag the hell out of it (twice per drive), and its all set.
The printer installed now and shared and working fine. I still have to add one drive and try to locate a card that lets me add more IDE drives (I have one here somewhere).
Once done, I will test it out. Right now I will keep it running for a week to make sure it doesnt do some wierd shutdown for no reason.
More later.
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Post by dolphie on Oct 9, 2009 15:00:55 GMT -5
OK... I was telling Dolphie my plan the other day and wanted to update here while sharing the details with you all.... I happen to have loads of old cases, parts, and drives here at my house from over the past 2 decades. So, I wanted to make a storage workhorse machine to sit on my network. Plan was to load it with drives, carry the printer and scanner (shared), and even add to it a fax modem. I dug out an old case with about 5 or more slots left for hard drives. After dusting it off, I hook it up and fire it up. BEEP BEEP BEEP.... wont run... ok, reset the chips and see what that does. Now it works, memory sticks must have oxidized. Hook it to an old CAD monitor I have (21 inch) and now I have a working machine that was my daughters way back when. It has XP on it, so it aint that old. I clean up the drives, get all the windows updates, defrag the hell out of it (twice per drive), and its all set. The printer installed now and shared and working fine. I still have to add one drive and try to locate a card that lets me add more IDE drives (I have one here somewhere). Once done, I will test it out. Right now I will keep it running for a week to make sure it doesnt do some wierd shutdown for no reason. More later. Good job! It feels good when we can recycle old stuff into productive resolutions. A storage stac is awesome!
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Post by animal on Oct 9, 2009 15:12:37 GMT -5
well, once I get it organized it will be good.... still working on that. Right now I am hooking my extra router to my machines second network port and running an internal-only network that we discussed. If I have trouble, I will yell on yahoo.
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Post by dolphie on Oct 9, 2009 15:16:06 GMT -5
well, once I get it organized it will be good.... still working on that. Right now I am hooking my extra router to my machines second network port and running an internal-only network that we discussed. If I have trouble, I will yell on yahoo. I should be here. If I am AFK - call me - you have my number.
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Post by raddy on Oct 9, 2009 15:43:29 GMT -5
Depending how old your drives are, you may want to set up a raid 5 environment (not sure if you have that hardware or not). Don't want an old drive failing on you. Cool idea though, gets me thinking about messing around with old stuff
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Post by animal on Oct 9, 2009 20:03:56 GMT -5
Ya, its fun reviving the stuff.... I cant find the raid card, may go buy one. The 2nd machine is running fine tho now I just have to finish setting up the directories and backup directions.
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Post by raddy on Oct 9, 2009 20:20:29 GMT -5
=D I think i might play around with an rsync server this weekend to see what can be done for backing up my own junk
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