Pulling The Plug

by davidlap 11. March 2009 20:19

We are finally pulling the plug on our family pc.  We have had this machine since 2002 and it is really hurting.  It’s been through many upgrades but it just does not seem worth it to go through another rebuild. 

This will also mark the first time I am buying a fully prebuilt system as I have placed an order for a new machine from HP (HP 9510f).  I did not even customize the machine during the order process online.  The off the shelf system with no customization was $200 cheaper than anything I could have built from scratch so it seemed the way to go.

I am also planning to get more serious about backing up all the PC’s in the house.  Backups today consist of an ad-hoc system of burning DVD’s and running around with USB drives.  The solution will hopefully be the Windows Home Server machine that I added to the PC order.  The server will have 1.5T of storage to start with two additional drive bays for future expansion.

I will post updates on the Windows Home Server experience in future blogs.

 

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