After 6 years of service our computer died this morning. Damn. It was a pretty nice box despite its age. We mostly ran linux on it, even though Windows was installed on it too (nice for Koen’s games, tax stuff and so on). We had recently bought a big widescreen for it which is now doing nothing for a while.
We’ve been considering how to replace this machine, if at all. There’s several options:
- the obvious : get a new pc and stick it somewhere in the network
- forget about the pc, get an extra notebook (the HP notebook will run windows, the new Eee 1000 notebook will run eee-ubuntu linux) and either
- get a spare 500Gb usb disk for backups (cheap solution)
- get a NAS (network applied storage) with 2 500Gb disks (expensive) \
I’m not a big fan of the new pc option. PCs only eat up a lot of space and ard hard to move around. Besides, all pcs are ugly. A much better option in my opinion is to slowly migrate to a situation where Eva and myself have a notebook of our own (not counting the notebook that I have for work, I don’t want to put my own stuff on that one).
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s best to grow via the extra notebook with extra external usb-disk option to a situation with a NAS. That is, get one Eee + disk now, get another Eee somewhere in the future (perhaps buy one after I’ve tought the course at the HU?) and the NAS somewhere next year.
Does anyone have experience with such set-up? Am I missing something?
Update: looks like we’re going for the incremental scenario. I’m currently shopping (figuring out where Ican get things cheapeast) for these items: