Subj : Re: Home Lab
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Moondog
Date : Sun May 17 2020 00:03:00

  Re: Re: Home Lab
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sat May 16 2020 08:59 am

 > -=> Nightfox wrote to Moondog <=-
 > 
 >  Ni> I've seen a lot of motherboards these days with SATA ports on the edge,
 >  Ni> facing outward (rather than upward).  I sometimes find those ports a
 >  Ni> bit awkward, since they don't point in the direction I need the cables
 >  Ni> to go.
 > 
 > My Dell T3400 has 2 SATA slots at the bottom of the case, which is OK -- but
 > the drives stick out so far that even with right-angle SATA cables there's a
 > bit of pressure on them.
 > 
 > It's been running like that since 2012, so I guess it'll hang in there a
 > little longer. I love the system, but with me working from home, 8GB of RAM
 > is turning out to be a pain.
 > 
 > It could allegedly go up to 16GB, but DDR2 ECC RAM costs enough to make me
 > want to just buy a T3500 that takes cheaper, Non-ECC DDR3 RAM.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > ... XT or AT, it makes a big difference.

The T3400 was quite the beast during it's time.


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