After watching this vid, I decided to get a Dell PowerEdge SC440 like you had in this vid. I got one on Ebay for 299$ with 4g ram, 500gb HD and a fast dual core Pentium. My Dell Demension 4600 is showing some age, but has been trouble free for seven+ years of hard use (only needed a HDD). I'd like to tie in four older confusers. It's built like a tank! I was going to get a Gateway that's about 600$+. The 440 came with Vista - I've used XP, debating keeping it Vista? Thanx for the 411 on server!
@umajunkcollector Nice score! Mine has been running 24/7 for about 5 years. Not a single problem :-)
I switch from XP to Vista a couple years ago. Overall I think it's alright just make sure you get all the service packs. They fix up a lot of the really annoying quirks.
What I do for my server is to use an old 1.1GHz Athlon PC kitted out with just shy of 20TB of storage :-) Not one problem in about 6 months now and over an old 802.11G WLAN (on average) I get 3MBPs transfers. With Gigabit Ethernet I get just shy of 20MBPs. Cheap hardware = kick-ass network server!
@bandersentv Did you ever get the Netcenter to have a steady light once you put a new drive in it? I have a 160gb netcenter and I called WD and inquired about installing a 1-2TB drive, they said it should work because the firmware will just see more capacity. Just wondering what you learned.
Hello, did you find the solution to the problem with the Western Digital Netcenter network drive.
I have exactly the same problem with a 500gb Western Digital Netcenter network drive (blinking blue light red)
Thank you for advice.
viga1251 5 months ago
@viga1251 No, I ended up buying a new one. The hard drive died and a new one needs to have some odd format.
bandersentv 5 months ago
After watching this vid, I decided to get a Dell PowerEdge SC440 like you had in this vid. I got one on Ebay for 299$ with 4g ram, 500gb HD and a fast dual core Pentium. My Dell Demension 4600 is showing some age, but has been trouble free for seven+ years of hard use (only needed a HDD). I'd like to tie in four older confusers. It's built like a tank! I was going to get a Gateway that's about 600$+. The 440 came with Vista - I've used XP, debating keeping it Vista? Thanx for the 411 on server!
umajunkcollector 1 year ago
@umajunkcollector Nice score! Mine has been running 24/7 for about 5 years. Not a single problem :-)
I switch from XP to Vista a couple years ago. Overall I think it's alright just make sure you get all the service packs. They fix up a lot of the really annoying quirks.
bandersentv 1 year ago
This copy of windows is not genuine. hahahahaaha
THEtechknight 1 year ago
@THEtechknight Yep. Back when I bought these SC420s, Dell would let you buy a computer with no OS. That really keeps the cost down.
bandersentv 1 year ago
What I do for my server is to use an old 1.1GHz Athlon PC kitted out with just shy of 20TB of storage :-) Not one problem in about 6 months now and over an old 802.11G WLAN (on average) I get 3MBPs transfers. With Gigabit Ethernet I get just shy of 20MBPs. Cheap hardware = kick-ass network server!
classicmacintosh 1 year ago
modern stuff is no fun to take apart and the insides arent near as much fun
chompo7 1 year ago
@chompo7 True, but I need this stuff to make money to buy the old stuff ;-)
bandersentv 1 year ago
@bandersentv Did you ever get the Netcenter to have a steady light once you put a new drive in it? I have a 160gb netcenter and I called WD and inquired about installing a 1-2TB drive, they said it should work because the firmware will just see more capacity. Just wondering what you learned.
traindad77 6 months ago
@traindad77 Hi. I'm afraid I gave up and bought a new network drive from iNeo. It's been working fine for a few months now.
bandersentv 6 months ago