Same old same old

okay, have bought a DT100 16GB flash key, the doc and battery. I can not order the headset yet (cheaper elsewhere and I don't remember my full card number :( ). Mum is getting the ipod at walmart today as well and the backpack website is blocked at school. Should be done this evening. :)
 
Yep. It is all a waiting game now. Hope the battery helps. I got 65 minutes right now and a max charge of 40.4 Wh or 74 Wh total.
 
Ordered the headphones from Amazon. Got a NIB set for $30 and next day shipping (says it will be here tuesday versus a shipping estimate of the 12th to the 15th for standard) for $18. So all together got them for less than newegg was. :)
 
hey Jason, lol.

Anyway, upcoming month needs to be sorted. I am pretty certain of what I want to do, but I am not 100% sure yet.

I am thinking of getting a couple of 12 cell batteries for the D630, as well as a media bay floppy drive and a D600 series mediabay SATA HDD holder (I have the M90 series, but it will not go in the D630). The only issue I am thinking about is how long the baked chip will last. I mean I don't want to go pouring money into it if it is just going to die again right soon. (im talking like within 3 or so months). It seems pretty stable right now, but I have basically been using it as an office machine, and done nothing more graphically intense than a flash video.

Does this all sound alright to you? May end up getting a few more 9 cells for the M90 to use as basically a really big gameboy, but I don't know if it is worth it yet. Seeing as I have the SSD in the D630 (loving it too), I may as well just leave it and put the 5400 RPM back in the M90, but that will mean loosing some battery time, and making gaming worse, as longer load times, meaning less time in game, plus heavy games that barely run on it won't run when it drops speed on battery saving mode (every time it is unplugged). :( not sure.

Anyway, with everything that I have figured, and paying more than I owe to a couple of bills, I will have ~ 300 left with the D630 batteries (2), floppy drive, and SATA carriage. Anything else you can think of that would be worth an investment in?
 
Put the SSD in the M90 and don't go spending a ton of money on your D360 if you think it's just going to die.
 
*630, not 360.

and I am not sure if it will dies or not. I have faith in it. It has been dropped, overheated, lost, stuck in a freezer, left in the truck for weeks, and everything in between and it still works. Never had an issue apart from the overheat that lead to its graphics death a while back. Done some research on how to properly bake it (not in the oven now!) and it works again. Runs very cool again (running AS5 and have the fan up on 75% constant with it set to go to 100% on any rise in temp above 50*c). It is cool to the touch almost always.

I am not really worried about what I have done to it so far. It is working. If it stops, then I can grab another for less than $100 and be back running in no time.

I always have the M90 if I need it. But it is getting old having to carry that 20 pound brick around with me.

I guess what I am saying is, as long as I am not sinking money into parts that won't work on any other D series laptop then I am fine with spending it. The G80 chips are bad. They have been for a long time. I should have noticed that before buying it. But if it dies again, then I can get a Intel D630 and be fine. All the externals will hook up just fine.
 
Let me put down what I am looking at for now. There may be better things out there. Not sure.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Floppy...loppy_Zip_Jaz_Drives&hash=item20c769c50b#shId (does what it says. Cheapest one listed as of yet. )
http://www.ebay.com/itm/12-cell-Bat...1978099575906608266&pid=100015&prg=1006&rk=1& (maybe a 9 cell would do?) idea being that a couple (2 or 3) should provide enough power that need be have power for 24 hours strait or more).
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SATA-HDD-Ha...US_Drive_Enclosures_Docks&hash=item3f15e43688 (I have a hear drive already, the one in the M90 media bay dock. Just going to transfer it over and be done with that. Just adds extra space.).

As of yet the SSD is still partitioned into 2 sets. One 80GB partition is set up for the M90, all as it was before. The rest of the drive to its nearest full GB is setup for the 630. I am going to leave it like that until I have a reason to believe that I no longer need the M90 partition. Which is probably never. But better safe than sorry.
 
If you think the laptop is going to be fine (and going by what it's been through I'd say it will see another day) then yeah spend the money.

A 9 cell battery would be fine I reckon if it's cheapest.

Rest all looks ok.
 
okay. This went smoother than I expected. So, I think the list will be:
(2) 12 cell batteries, maybe a third later on depending on how well the power cycle on one is.
(1) floppy drive
(1) HDD drive.
 
okay, so I was thinking it out a little more.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608018 is this pretty much THE best air cooler? Is it worth the money? or should I take a chance on leaks with a H80?

Also, Jason I know you can help here because you have one, or could ask your pop.
What would be involved in setting up a server with automatic backups of documents, pictures and the like? Would 8 GB and a G530 be enough to do it? What OS would be needed? I have XP, vista, and 7 keys, as well as access to any linux ever invented that carries USB. Would one of them work? Figured I could do that with my extra parts laying around. Be better than them sitting there.
 
Yeah the NH-D14 is a great cooler without getting too massive (it is big though). I would probably get that over the H80. Your RAM should be fine underneath it, it's low profile isn't it? Gamer 2?

As for servers, the best way to make an "automatic backup" is to have 2 disks in RAID-1, that mirrors one drive as I'm sure you know - is that what you're looking for? That's how our server works at home. Doesn't matter what CPU you have and how much RAM you have (unless you want to build something like an e-mail server or something, but just for storing files, which is presumably what you want to do, it doesn't matter), all you need is a board which can do RAID-1, which 99% can.

OS wise, any of those will be fine. Vista or 7 64-bit would be good with 8GB of RAM,
 
Okay. the NH-D14 it is then.

I am not sure if the ASrock H61DE/S3 supports RAID 1 or not. I am not seeing it listed at ASrock or Newegg as supporting RAID 1.

Okay, so If I set it up with 7_64 bit and 2 3TB drives in RAID 1, how would I go about setting it up to backup the 2 laptops, the desktop, and Sisters laptop? Is it just a program that I can install on the computers that will do it? (mind now that the D630 and M90 are running 2k/XP and sister is running 8 RP).

Also adding to the list yet again. Slowly running out of money here again, but stuff I really want/need.

(2) 12 cell batteries
(1) floppy drive
(1) SATA drive
(1) NH-D14
(1) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124190

TO get the server up is probably going to wait a bit. I need a case, 2 HDD, and a PSU and some more memory to run it.

And yes, it is the gamer 2 memory. Low profile as it gets with standard DIMMs.
 
Have a look in your board manual and see if it supports RAID-1.

If you have external drives you can most probably use programs which will routinely create system images of your laptops.
 
I don't have a board manual. All that came with it was the I/O shield and the board. It was a cheap-o ebay find to tide over when I had to RMA the extreme 4.

I will look it up though. May wait and set it up on the extreme 4 as the server if I can get a better board for the daily use PC. decisions decisions.
I could do that, but I would need a external drive. I can probably pick one up at walmart, but not too sure. All I really need to do is to make a restore point on the external drive will all the docs and .exe(s) that I had on it, and the drivers of coarse. It is easy and quick enough to reinstall windows on them.
 
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