"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
05/11/2018 at 18:32 • Filed to: None
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"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
05/11/2018 at 18:32 • Filed to: None | 1
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Thanks to the advice of fellow Oppos I used Acronis True Image to clone my hard drive to the new, but smaller, SSD after moving my Steam directory, a laborious task that took over a day. This one upgrade has breathed new life into this semi-old computer. It was great as a Hackintosh running off of an SSD, but I find myself using Windows 10 more often and thus tossed in another SSD found on sale over at Newegg.
It’s not state-of-the-art, but then again, it only set me back $200 (plus the cost of the SSD). I re-used some existing parts (video card, another 8GB of RAM, and some spare drives to supplement the 2TB unit that came with it). Thanks to this performance boost I can see using this beastie for several more years. My only problem now seems to be that I don’t want to run anything off of conventional hard drives any longer as I don’t think I could stand the wait. I guess I’ll grab more SSDs as I find them on sale or on the used market; I guess another 1-1.5 TBs will be sufficient for my simulations, and everything else can go on a conventional HD (or SSHD if I find some deals).
lone_liberal
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
05/11/2018 at 19:31 |
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Thanks for posting this! It reminded me to order the replacement for my Elite 8200 work computer. Going to be running Dell this time and have an SSD drive for the first time in a work machine.
Nom De Plume
> lone_liberal
05/11/2018 at 22:32 |
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Obligatory, Ewwww Dell.
I shopped this out and the HP is no more expensive even with W10 Pro Workstation. Probably, took an educated guess at your specs.
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lone_liberal
> Nom De Plume
05/11/2018 at 22:40 |
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After all these years doing IT I’ve cursed at machines from every manufacturer. I have no brand loyalty left. As long as I can deal with business support and not consumer I’m fine.
jminer
> lone_liberal
05/11/2018 at 23:08 |
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Me too - although HP has gone pretty far south recently. At my current place we’re HP by contract and we have far more issues with server hardware than I have with any other manufacturer. I’m dealing with server hardware failures at a crazy high rate - out of about 300 servers we have 2 crash a month.
It’s enough to make me want to swear off HP for a bit...
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lone_liberal
> jminer
05/11/2018 at 23:18 |
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We’re a much, much smaller operation with only four physical servers but for the last one I did get a Dell instead of an HP like the older ones. I seem to run in to driver issues more often with HP.
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jminer
> lone_liberal
05/11/2018 at 23:22 |
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Yeah, Dell is my preferred choice nowadays. They’re cheaper than the HP units, and have better support. When I run a contract support outside of my main job I’ll either whitebox it or Dell depending on client budget.
Performance is identical, they all use the same components and chipsets anyway.