Setting up a new computer

camgfs

rwheelwright

phobicsquirrel

xmacro

To piggyback on Pheebs, your computer may be overkill - unless you've into heavy video editing/rendering, or the most hardcore of gamer, this system may well be a massive overkill

camgfs

camgfs

I will have to look thinks up to find more specifics. This system was pretty much build so all I had to do was connect a few things, add the second HD and any software I want to use. It did not come with any software pre-installed (well, it had Win 7 Home Premium, but not for long). As for overkill, the first computer I purchased had a 4 Gig hard drive, and the salesman told me "you will never fill that in your lifetime". My SQL Server Virtual Machine should top 70 Gigs when loaded with sample databases and all the roles. I don't think anything is overkill these days, but that might be just me?

JudoChinX

djbeenie

Nice machine! I have a Dell 2600 and 2950 Servers running VMWare ESXi. VMWARE I have an Exchange 2010, SQL 2008, Ubuntu Webserver, Two DC's Server 2008 R2, Citrix XenApp 5.0 all running in a rack in my garage. HA! I still want to build my super Cuda password cracking computer using multiple GPUs. http://www.secmaniac.com/february-2011/building-the-ultimate-bad-***-cuda-cracking-server/

camgfs

JudoChinX

Oh, and before I forget, Gentoo might be a good experience to setup if you find the time. That will teach you tons about Linux.

phobicsquirrel

xmacro

SSD's and their limited re-writes make me cautious about them

phobicsquirrel

xmacro:

SSD's and their limited re-writes make me cautious about them

That has been an issue and still is for some drives. I know that the sata ssd's have other issues with them, mainly when using sata3 and marvel controllers. Even though ssd's have a "debate" about them on aging re-writing they still are much faster than regular drives. Which is why they are nice, but I don't see them replacing HDD's any time soon.

xmacro

^ True. They're extremely promising, but it's gonna take a few years before the kinks get works out and they start replacing/supplementing HD drives for me

camgfs

camgfs

Krieg

Glad to hear it's working. Have no experience with hyper v, but if you were using VMware I could help out

camgfs

rwheelwright

Good to see that it is all working for you. With Hyper V you can allocate memory to each VM along with how many processors you want the VM to see which is nice. It has been a while since I used it though. There might have been a limitation where you could only use up to 2 or was it 4 but that was in Server 2008 not R2. Come to think of it, I need to get to my parents house and bring the server back to my place. I just need help lifting it. It is over 100lbs.

Gurkha Man!

this will be a beast of a machine i would love to see this in action

camgfs

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