[GRLUG] HP workstation hardware issue

[Grand Rapids Linux Users Group]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 10:16:18AM -0700, Grand Rapids Linux Users Group wrote:
> 100 is 100% (for Samsung drives, at least, which most likely yours
> is), so it should be fine.

One of the two is a Samsung. This one, though, is not. I think it's a
Kingston.

> Not sure how much you have into the HP machine, but I’ve been using
> the ThinkCentres, which you can buy used at NewEgg / Tiger / Amazon
> for around $500 for an i7 sandy bridge quad core and 16/32G RAM.  If
> you need a gaming rig, it’s a little underpowered, but for running
> ubuntu with VirtualBox VMs, they’re pretty decent.

I found a new / unused motherboard for under $80 on eBay! It's actually
a pretty sweet machine, running two 3.2GHz Xeons with 16GB RAM. I spend
a HUGE chunk of my time in xterms with vim, and it's, uh, rather
adequate. It also plows through the tiny bit of audio editing I do each
week. I certainly never tax the system. I love it in large part due to
the ECC RAM. The thing is rock-stable. Except for the networking problem
and now the dropping to ro problem.

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J-T