{"id":3971,"date":"2011-11-14T03:23:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T11:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2011-11-14T03:23:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T11:23:08","slug":"project-get-rid-of-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/project-get-rid-of-pcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Get Rid of PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Project Get Rid of PCs<\/em> is officially underway! I decided I had too many computers running in my house and 2 of them are just fancy file servers. Now that I switched to a Mac mini, my Windows desktop has become nothing more than my video encoder \/ Quicken host, which I plan on converting to a VM.<\/p>\n

Unofficially, this is also called Project Conserve Energy<\/em> (for those who might not share my opinion on Mac OSX, you must at least agree conserving energy is good). I’ll be able to power down 3 full computers (hosting a total of 12 HDDs running 24\/7) and replace them with 4 power-saving external USB drives.<\/p>\n

I was initially planning to start this project during holidays, but with the floods in Thailand and the expected hard drive shortages, I decided to get them before the price was blown out of proportion. Costco had a coupon where the Western Digital 3TB drives would be $20 off and when SlickDeals reported the final price was $110, I decided to bite.<\/p>\n

Even though Costco’s coupon showed a limit of 5 per customer, they had a sign up that said limit 2 due to the flooding in Thailand. SlickDeals did report you can actually bypass the limit as long as it’s only 2 per transaction.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I pulled Derek along since these hard drives were going to come out of HD-Trailers.net’s budget, but was sad to find out that Issaquah was sold out of them. Their computer showed 6 in stock, but probably in people’s cart. The told us that Kirkland still had ~30 in stock and Derek was cool enough to take a side trip to Kirkland Costco. We each picked up 2 and my original estimation of ~$500 came pretty close. I had altered my estimated cost to ~$600 after I heard about the flooding in Thailand.<\/p>\n

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The plan was to have 2 sets of mirrored drives (RAID 1) and as Ryan has painfully found out, it’s impossible to use the Apple software to raid 3TBs. I went ahead and installed SoftRAID<\/a> and setting up the arrays was really easy.<\/p>\n

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Now comes the long part of moving all the crap off my existing file servers onto these external USB drives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So Project Get Rid of PCs is officially underway! I decided I had too many computers running in my house and 2 of them are just fancy file servers. Now that I switched to a Mac mini, my Windows desktop has become nothing more than my video encoder \/ Quicken host, which I plan on … <\/p>\n

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