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I've just built a new PC, my first in five years. My wife wanted to know what I plan to do with my old one, and apparently 'have it around for the kids to play with in 10 years" wasn't an acceptable answer. I can kind of see her point, everywhere you look in this house there's another black monolith (I'm a big fan of Fractal cases). So I'm turning SHSC for an opinion as to whether I give my machine away, or use the bits for my current NAS, or to resurrect my old NAS as a backup machine, or what. Here's what I currently have cluttering up the house: * Shiny new gaming PC worth more than my car * Five-year-old gaming PC (Sandy Bridge i5 2500k, 8Gb RAM, Radeon 6950, 256Gb SSD, 1Tb HD) * WHS 2011-based NAS with 24Tb of storage. (AMD A4 5300, 4Gb RAM), currently in use. * WHS v1-based NAS with 10Tb of storage ( AMD Athlon II X2 255, 2Gb RAM) Here are my options: 1) Upgrade my current NAS. I feel like upgrading the motherboard/CPU/RAM of my main NAS has the potential to gently caress everything up,especially going from AMD to Intel. It works well now, 4Gb is ample for a headless NAS (IMHO), so I'm not sure the risk is worth it. 2) Upgrade/repurpose my WHSv1 NAS. This isn't being used, so it doesn't matter what I do with it. I migrated all the data from that to my new one a couple of years back. So perhaps I could upgrade it, throw FreeNAS on it (my new PC is mainly Linux) and use it to back up the important stuff from my new PC and the current NAS. However - and I know this sound stupid - it would seem odd to have this machine as more powerful than the main NAS. 3) Give the old gaming PC to my in-laws. They're currently languishing on a Core2Duo with mechanical hard drive, even a five-year-old machine would blow it out of the water. Has anyone else had this problem?
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modeski posted:I've just built a new PC, my first in five years. My wife wanted to know what I plan to do with my old one, and apparently 'have it around for the kids to play with in 10 years" wasn't an acceptable answer. 2 NAS wife Furious ?  Linux server to SSH tunnel web requests through I have a lot of old custom built computers, laptops and miscellaneous tech of yesteryear lying around that aren't being used. I have "plans" for them but haven't implemented. I want to repurpose one or two but mostly download/wipe and sell/donate/recycle. I'm lacking the wife to "remind" me about this, though. dbcooper fucked around with this message at 10:09 on Dec 15, 2016 |
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Dec 15, 2016 07:10
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Zero it and give it to the in laws on the condition that they never ask you for tech support. Even creaky old gaming hardware is mana from heaven for people used to surfing the web on 2GB Vista machines. Or store it unpowered where nobody will see it for a couple years "just in case" then throw it out once it's hilariously obsolete.
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Dec 15, 2016 13:31
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I generally sell, donate, or recycle my old tech when it's no longer in use. But unlike a lot of tech guys, I don't have any attachments to my gear (this is not a dig at you).
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Dec 15, 2016 15:29
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In Europe, there's plenty of eastern europeans who will gladly grab anything you put up on Ebay. You don't get a lot of money but it gets the crap out of your apartment. There must certainly be a similar thing with southern americans on the other side of the pond?
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Dec 15, 2016 16:19
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Thanks guys. Can't be bothered with the hassle of selling it. I think I'll give my in-laws first refusal, and if they don't want it I'll put the SSD in my new machine and put the motherboard/RAM in my old NAS then figure out what to do with it.
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Dec 15, 2016 22:58
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That 5 year old gaming machine is still perfectly fine and usable. Things aren't moving that fast anymore.
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Dec 16, 2016 00:46
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Johnny Aztec posted:That 5 year old gaming machine is still perfectly fine and usable. Things aren't moving that fast anymore. Very true. And the in-laws have said yes they'll take it (and are very grateful).
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Dec 16, 2016 02:54
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modeski posted:* WHS 2011-based NAS with 24Tb of storage. (AMD A4 5300, 4Gb RAM), currently in use. Thats a shitload of storage, are you some kind of digital hoarder?
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Dec 16, 2016 20:47
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I am sure I will get around to watching these complete collected series of Macgyver, Xena the warrior princess, Buffy the vampire slayer and Hercules *someday*
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Dec 16, 2016 22:06
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Just play them all constantly and have your own daytime televsion
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Dec 19, 2016 10:30
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Johnny Aztec posted:That 5 year old gaming machine is still perfectly fine and usable. Things aren't moving that fast anymore. Yeah, it's basically my daily drive  and I have no immediate plans to upgrade. Good to see it being repurbed
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Dec 28, 2016 13:09
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I am always interested in building a NAS. Buy every time I think it I realize my entire digital life is contained within one 250 gb SSD as it is. I put a second ssd in recently and its just sitting there at 0 kb used. Sell sell sell donate sell sell trash sell
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Dec 28, 2016 19:31
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Bohemian Cowabunga posted:Thats a shitload of storage, are you some kind of digital hoarder? Yes, I'm absolutely a digital hoarder. At least computers are relatively small. I'm a reformed physical media hoarder, though. When I first moved out of home I had boxes upon boxes of magazines, VHS tapes, CDs, cassettes and books that I would schlep around with me from house to house. It was ridiculous, e.g. I had things like the entirety of Star Trek: TNG and The X-Files - both recorded off the TV for repeated viewing, and the official tapes for collecting/occasional viewing. Then I left the country and sold/donated/threw out everything. It was very liberating. Now I just collect data. Ironically the girlfriend and I only like about 20% of the same shows/movies, so there's a lot of things I'm definitely going to get around to one day. I ended up donating that computer and a spare monitor to the in-laws; they're very happy with it.
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MAME cabinet. Seriously. Preferably a bartop with an LCD for convenience. Great for kids.
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