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How to: Upgrade an Older Machine

By on October 27, 2009 in Hardware, News, Windows Home Server

The guys over at Automated Home think along the same lines I do.

  • Rackmount cases
  • Windows Home Server (of course!)
  • Asus motherboard
  • Corsair PSU

You get the drift…  They took their 4-year old media server and in their own words:

The machine has served us well, but nothing lasts forever and this week we pulled the old girl out of the rack for a heart transplant.

They went from a Windows XP based machine with IDE and USB drives (oh, my!)

jb2 old thumb How to: Upgrade an Older Machine

to a Windows Home Server based machine with 1TB SATA drives.

jb2 finished thumb thumb How to: Upgrade an Older Machine

This looks like a machine that I would build!  It’s a real nice read on how to perform major surgery on an older media box.  And enter the 21st century at the same time!

Enjoy!

Link: Upgraded Media Computer


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About Jim Clark

Hello. I’m from the heartland of the U.S. Lots of corn and beans, although Iowa is a lot more than just farmland. It also has a few computer enthusiasts (no, not me!). I’ve been around PCs since I got my 1st PC XT aloooong time ago. WGS is one of the first sites I found centered around WHS. And the best. Every once in awhile, I do get away from the KB and enjoy time with and my wife and our 4 kids. And I do have a day job.
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  • http://intensedebate.com/people/urmaster urmaster

    Jim sounds like they just built a new unit. What remains of the old?

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/Jim_Clark Jim_Clark

      The case may look new, but it is the old one with new backplanes in it.

      I suppose you could pretty much say at that point that it is a new build…

      • http://intensedebate.com/people/urmaster urmaster

        Yeh just finished reading, I've never considered rack mounts at all by they’ve piqued my interest (not that I’m ever goanna build one). Good read.

  • K.Rock

    Did any one read this part? "We retained the most modern of the IDE disks from the old server (400GB) and installed it in one of the internal bays in the case for use as the OS / Boot drive."

    Why would you do that? Using an old drive is one thing, but using it as the primary drive? What gives…

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/Jim_Clark Jim_Clark

      It does seem rather strange considering one the factors they mentioned for the upgrade was due to IDE becoming expensive.

      But it is soooo difficult to retire working HW, ya know?

  • K.Rock

    I don’t disagree, but using it as the main OS drive, rather than server backups???