The eternal treadmill....
Feb. 14th, 2011 05:58 pmI have an old desktop that has been in storage for a while. It's been replaced as a desktop with the one I bought in China, but I'd like to turn it into a file server.
Except, of course, it doesn't do SATA. No problem, I can buy a SATA card. Except, of course, they're all PCI-Express, and this motherboard is slightly too old for that. Lots of PCI slots, and AGP, but no PCI-E.
It's got a shitload of USB ports, though. So I guess I either grab some USB->SATA adaptors and some SATA drives, or I get a whole new computer. Still, I think it does DVI out, so maybe it will be repurposed for watching movies on.
Except, of course, it doesn't do SATA. No problem, I can buy a SATA card. Except, of course, they're all PCI-Express, and this motherboard is slightly too old for that. Lots of PCI slots, and AGP, but no PCI-E.
It's got a shitload of USB ports, though. So I guess I either grab some USB->SATA adaptors and some SATA drives, or I get a whole new computer. Still, I think it does DVI out, so maybe it will be repurposed for watching movies on.