Sigh, I hater server upgrades

Wed 28, Thr 29 worked on replacing old SBS2003 server with SBS2008 on newer hardware. One forgets what a pain in the butt is to xfer the exchange mail stores and more work stations in the domains.

As Usual, it takes three times longer, do to backing up mail stores.
 

Time for a home Workstation / Server redo

Some details on latest project.   I've been Using AMD processors for 5 years or so, and have been pleased with the results, unlike most people, I have kissed off Micro$oft WinBloze for normal use. I have been using Fedora for last few years,
since I am very much a Redhat / Centos fanboy.

So on to details of latest Machine.

AMD FX-9590 oem 4.77Ghz  Processor.
Since the price on this chip is almost affordable, I used it.  Biggest Issue
220 Watt TDP.  This chip tends to fry eggs.

32GB of Ram

AMD OEM closed loop Water Cooling Kit.

NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] (rev a2)  

ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 Motherboard

600 Watt Power Supply

1 TB Seagate Drive
2 TB Seagate Drive

128 GB SSD 

Dual 27" Monitors

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System is loaded with Fedora 20.
1TB Drive is  Root Drive
2TB Drive is  /Home

SSD Drive is used for BCache Drive Caching.

Performance is very "Nice".

KVM/Qemu is used for Virtualization of Linux / Windows Guests.
 
 

Virtualbox Saves a dying PC

Hello All,

Saved a dying PC that was critical to a CPA...   Had an XP system hosting older
Software that will not run on current Win7 machines.  CPA's motherboard died and I used a workstation Imaging product (EeaseUS) to back and bare metal restore to a Virtual Box VM to allow the CPA to continue to work on the critical software on the old XP image.