Friday, January 14, 2011

[rant] It's not repairs, it's an overhaul! (minor delay)

Ok, I just sent my computer to my friend's computer shop for a complete overhaul of my system and with a tuneup and whatnot. In other words, he's stripping my computer down to the most basic form of the case and then scrubbing the entire case clean to remove dust. I'm also having all of my HDD's checked for consistency, removing my lower performing HDD's (caviar green) and installing an extra 2.3TB of space along with a RAID 0 setup with 150GB 10K Velociraptors. Getting the motherboard completely removed and reapplying new thermal paste on the CPU. Because of how much work is needed, my computer is probably going to stay in the shop until Tuesday earliest but I'm not expecting it until Thursdays at least considering this guy loves to take his time in matters like this... Expect a release the minute I get my computer back because it's currently sitting on a near releasable project (just missing Staff Notes). Sigh.
Posted by mTech at 11:47 PM
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6 comments:

  1. EdMXJanuary 15, 2011 at 9:40 PM

    True, a repair is not an overhaul... but it needs to be sent to the shop, nonetheless. Amazing what you do to your computer... it's almost as if it were a car.

    And what's the RAID for? Are you planning on putting up a server, or are you THAT anal in having backup. -_-;

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  2. mTechJanuary 16, 2011 at 12:15 AM

    I canceled the RAID 0 (it would of allowed the hard drives to piggy back off of each other in a sense, nearly doubling the speed of the already fast Velociraptor's) because the motherboard I have at the moment does not include a RAID controller. Oh well, I'm thinking of just buying / building a new computer on one of SuperMicro's business class motherboards and piggybacking a server ontop of my file share.

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 16, 2011 at 4:50 PM

    Buy cheap netbook or used laptop for backup and emergency edits, problem solved(?).

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  4. mTechJanuary 16, 2011 at 7:08 PM

    I already have one, its just a total fucking pain to use the touchpad.

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  5. EdMXJanuary 16, 2011 at 9:26 PM

    @mTech

    I don't know if you're high-maintenance, or just stupid. D:

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