Recent content by tulmad

Why is it not in the same category (honest question)? I'm looking at doing the same thing the OP is, and with the X1600PRO 512MB only being $150 it's looking quite tempting.

Well, it's actually a newer disk (160GB 7200RPM 8MB cache) attached to a PCI ATA/100 card. Yes, I'm wasting some throughput on the disk by attaching it to that card, but up until now that didn't matter too much. The board is very old FIC PA-2013...

Hrm, maybe I'll begin work on that mini-itx fileserver earlier than I thought. Or at least start thinking of something else. If your P3/500 can't handle it, I have to wonder if an 800mhz C3 could.

I just bought a gigabit switch from Dell on that fantastic deal they had last week. Now I'm updating all my other hardware to take advantage. Most of my machines handle it already, but my fileserver still has a 10/100 NIC. The problem is that it's a K6-2/500, and I'm wondering if it can even...