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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (462)	4/7/1998 7:37:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

The other side of the story. I have 5 systems networked in my house (plus a laptop which gets hooked in as needed). They are all minitowers or smaller; they all have EIDE disks (no SCSI). I do have SCSI cd-roms and scanners. The most I paid for any tower was $110, including power supply. That particular supply is toast, as reported earlier. BUT the form factors have changed so that extra money spent on towers in the past would not have translated into future benefits. In fact, the first tower I bought was a full tower with seven external bays. It was ok, but gave no future joy and of course would not support ATX form factor. And I never came close to using all those bays because I expanded to networked boxes. Eventually I gave it to my daughter. She has trouble fitting it under her desk. The upshot is, what do you want to do with it and how do you plan to use it. I much prefer the smaller towers with fewer external bays because they suit my needs. I have had very bad luck buying today for use tomorrow, both because of the rapid change in form factors AND improvement in technology. I'm not arguing against trying to reuse the case, but frankly, I rarely stand on mine and don't really give a damn if it's solid steel or not. I can LIFT every one of my cases <ggg>. But this is me. Everyone must of course determine their own priorities and their needs. I would much prefer to have several smaller systems networked than one monster system; both for fault tolerance and because I have a number of users in my house of various kinds (me, wife, grown daughter, business, personal, experimental, the total catastrophe). I run my two largest systems off a single UPS, incidentally. Spots