Being Dependent on 1 Computer

Posted By: Bob Buskirk on February 26th, 2007
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Well if you haven’t noticed ThinkComputers did not post a new review for 5 days! That’s one of the longest times it has gone without new content! The reason for this is that the CPU in my main PC died so I had to wait until new parts came in to work on most of the ThinkComputers content. Now I did have my laptop, but my main PC had my affiliate mailing list on it, which makes up about 60% of my traffic so it would be pointless to post a review and not send out a mailing list. When you are testing various types of hardware on your main PC it could easily break and you will not be able to get your work done. For this reason I went and forked out some extra cash to build a work PC. This PC will be my main PC that I do all of my work on and will not be used to test hardware. So now I have a dedicated test machine to do all of the hardware testing on that it wouldn’t matter as much if a piece of hardware in there breaks because it is not interrupting me from doing work. So things are back to normal now, hopefully I will have some interesting posts soon!!

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Joel said on February 26th, 2007 at 12:56 pm

Been there done that! I remember having some exactly like that happening. Where I was testing some hardware, things didn’t go to well and was without my primary resources for like a week, never a fun experience.

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Sean said on February 26th, 2007 at 1:00 pm

I try to store all my website stuff on my external USB drive (it’s a laptop drive in an enclosure), and keep snapshots on one of my desktop’s RAID drives whenever I modify enough to feel it needs backed up.

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Stephen said on February 26th, 2007 at 1:40 pm

Run a RAID 5 NAS and keep all your files on it and access it from a mapped network drive. Even if all my PC’s blow up, my files are intact.

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Sean Reply:
February 26th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Unless the NAS does as well.

Too bad RAID 5 NAS are so expensive.

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stephen Reply:
February 28th, 2007 at 3:52 am
It’s been running for 2 years. Hasn’t blown a drive yet. Even if it does, replace it and you can take your sweet time while chugs along with one less drive. The beauty of RAID 5!

When you factor in how much of a pain in the ass it is to lose your data, the price becomes pretty small.

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ashwin said on February 26th, 2007 at 4:28 pm

external hard drives are the way to go

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Sean Reply:
February 26th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
NAS are nice, too. One of these days I’m going to put together a home server/router.

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