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I still need to figure out what to do about my printer. I could either move my printer into my room, buy a wireless printer server, or buy a new wireless printer. | |||
Revision as of 03:21, 11 June 2009
I currently am using my old PIII machine stored in my closet as a file and print server. It's plenty of power for what I need, but it doesn't support SATA and other modern protocols, so I can't load it up with disk space. I was originally thinking about replacing it with a home NAS, but Justin Lin convinced me otherwise. He convinced me to virtualize my workstation (an Athlon machine) instead.
Here's what I'm going to do:
- Upgrade the RAM. My Dell currently has 2GB RAM and it can take 4GB. Looks like I need PC2-4200/5300/6400 DDR2 SDRAM DIMMs. This site recommends getting one 4GB DIMM.
- Add two 1.5TB drives to be setup as a single RAID1 1.5TB drive.
- Run barebones Linux as the host OS, set up the disks using software RAID, and install VMware Workstation on top of that.
- Set up three VMs:
I still need to figure out what to do about my printer. I could either move my printer into my room, buy a wireless printer server, or buy a new wireless printer.
