A flash drive.Got a Case in this past Thursday with a 13.6 GB HDD! Wonder what that would be good for?
A flash drive.Got a Case in this past Thursday with a 13.6 GB HDD! Wonder what that would be good for?
I was just thinking ....
It would be nice if Windows would fit on that drive and then I could use a 2nd drive to install programs.
Put by the time you format this Drive it may only be about 10GB so unless Windows will fit under 10GB I don't see any use for this Drive.... other then more storage!
Besides that small of a drive is going to be old and slow, you wouldn't want to use it for anything.
For Windows true. For Linux you could make it work, even with BOINC. You could try Dotsch_UX.Originally Posted by JerWA
I would make it the swap file drive. Go ahead and install it, and remove your swap file from drive C, and put it on this second drive. It will probably speed up the computer a tiny bit, and what's more, it will lower the constant thrashing on the C drive!
Got another desktop in at work Friday.... this one was a old Compaq with just 64MB of mem. It had a 30GB HDD and so I took the HDD. Going to see if the Drive works and when I get the XP Pro disc I will install it on there and power up that "Barebones Kit" and see how many cir breakers it trips!
The PC I got Friday only had a CD Rom and a FDD and 1 HDD. It had a place for another HDD and 1 slot for another FDD/Zip Drive and 1 slot for another 3.5 inch drive. This unit only had about a 150 Watt PSU. There were 2 PCI slots and a AGP slot. It was a nice Case but no place for any other fan. In fact there was only the fan for the CPU mounted on the heat sink and the fan from the PSU.
You could I guess use one of those fans that uses a PCI slot but the only open slot was at the bottom and most of the heat would be going to the top of the PC Case.
In fact I have on of those in my D820 that is just above my video card. In fact it pulls air from that card and out the the back of the unit. So I guess it helps keep the GPU cool???
Anyway can't wait to see what goodies come in this week!
Ricky,
If you ever get a chance to come over to the Raleigh area, I've got a whole bunch of stuff you could have...
Mainly dualcore athlons in mobos, but I do also have a dual cpu Xeon motherboard with 2 old Nocona 3.6 xeons in. Bunch of monitors too.
I've been slowly taking all of this down to the local recycling place or just throwing it out.
Bok
No thanks, in most cases for the most part I just take these and I keep screws for the drives and sometimes I my keep the HDD if I find them useful. I may even keep a cable if I need one. Once I remove all screws I need I normally take it back to work and throw it away.
I have no room for to much! I would love to find a 5.25 FDD because I was thinking of fixing one up for DOS 5.0 and speaking of DOS I would like to find a way to remove DOS from 98SE to upgrade the 5.0. I saw something somewhere online on how to do that but not been able to find it again.
Last edited by Ricky Moore; 04-20-11 at 07:25 AM. Reason: Spelling Error!
Dual-Core athlons paired with a GPU will make a fine cruncher....Why not try donate some to others? Damn shame to throw out such good stuff. If only single cores I could understand.....
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UPDATE!!
Got the Disc for XP Pro, Thanks.... Just not had time to work on it. I am hoping to get it up and running before the end of the PG Race to see how it does. May not get all the updates installed but as long as I get BOINC installed the other can download while BOINC is running and still be able to upload.
During the time that Windows is updating should I set BOINC to use just 1 core???
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