| Actually it was this one I’m looking at, I think it fits the bill.
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 18, 2023, at 8:06 PM, Kaleb Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> wrote:
Ok got ya; I have seen those. I saw this and saved it thinking it was $349, but see it’s actually $549. Looked great though.
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 18, 2023, at 8:01 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote:
For a desktop machine I'd go with something like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/175874607658?hash=item28f2f18a2a:g:T9EAAOSwkwNk8HHB&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA0FOsKwtEQnKBXTX%2BPQptGXq1l4%2FhmNsQzAnJTMJFwkKCP29Oi4k4WMHZaMlqj%2BUo3mGDbClGcnLxUxUBicauQGvy596OAt31SFCLIvzhrRNCqFf%2FdrxC7gDnkKtoCUXp6e%2B%2F0veOEUhJriSbegQfJiPxa1n%2FaitqJSJIIX3U%2B8wLdO9J9sIajWIQp5hAm95EA7scTe7yhvtwqdyprc9IUnbb30M43H7d2Y3cgBKgWF1w8wim6NsuIbZ3oAVVRzw2s98nExo7t2bUpWJFbUMioJI%3D%7Ctkp%3ABFBMtOfyrtVi32GB RAM, the only thing I don't like is that its only a quad core processor. Probably plenty for a normal person looking to just do some regular computing.There are a bunch of them on eBay, some with more processor, less/more RAM, bigger/smaller drives. Pick one that fits your budget.For reference until last spring Angie's business ran on an HP XW8200 from pre-2005, as in I don't really remember how old it was but it can't be newer than that. I remember getting my boss to buy it. It was the first machine I ever used with SATA as standard. Cost around $3500 as I recall.-CurtOn Monday, September 18, 2023 at 08:51:40 PM EDT, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: Can you point me to an example that might be a good deal? I have been out of the PC hardware game for a while and not sure what’s a good deal/spec these days. Sent from my iPhoneOn Sep 18, 2023, at 1:51 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Yup, an older workstation is totally the way to go. Right now I'd be looking at an HP z4, they've been out for several years and several revisions using that model number. Looks like good ones are around $250 on eBay for a machine that would have been $1500-2000 4 years ago...
Hard drives are not forever, 7 years is a good lifespan in full time usage. As soon as they start to make any weird noises back up your data because the end time is neigh....
-Curt
On Monday, September 18, 2023 at 12:37:22 PM EDT, MB list etc via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
I've quit building my own and now buy used previous generation HP workstations with the OS from eBay. Kurt suggested this a while back. I installed a new SSD as the boot drive and use the HD it came with for data.
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On Monday, September 18th, 2023 at 10:25 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
My PC appears to have crashed. This is a system I built probably 10 or more years ago, maybe much longer. And over the years IIRC have upgraded the MB. It had a 1.5tb HDD as well as a 1tb SSD. Over the last couple of months I have noticed a high pitched whining sound. Seemed to start and stop. This was coming from the SSD. It then got to where when booting the cmos wouldn’t even see the SSD. System seemed to boot fine otherwise. At one point in the last week system seems extremely slow to boot. I also ordered a deal where you can plug in drive to a device that connects to PC. With SSD connected I finally got it to recognize the drive but when trying to access, sits there and then gives I/O error drive not accessible.
Installed SSD back in machine, same thing. Also, I have noticed that even without the SSD installed the main HDD is started and stopping all the time and takes forever to load windows. At the moment machine won’t even load windows, just goes into a repair then says not able to repair. Only option is to try to have to reinstall windows.
Back to SSD, tried connecting it to a laptop and it shows the drive which appears to have 2 partitions but clicking on either one, it spins/loads for a few minutes. Strange thing is when viewing these drives in windows it doesn’t show capacity and free space. Eventually it basically says drive inaccessible. I need to recover this drive. Any ideas or software that might work?
Point of the post. Thinking it’s time for a new system. Should I just order new MB, memory, hard drive etc, build a completely new system, or just buy a commercially prebuilt one such as HP etc? The prices of these seem so cheap these days and will already have OS installed maybe that makes the most sense? If I go this route I will then attempt to connect these drives externally to recover data.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
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