On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 13:13:00 -0400
Clarke Sideroad <marcus9000@???> wrote:

> On 2018-06-25 08:03 AM, wirelessduck@??? wrote:
> > I have an old desktop at home running Devuan ascii for some basic
> > server/file storage functions. Unfortunately the disk sounds like
> > it's almost dead so I took a clonezilla backup and now want to find
> > some replacement hardware. Looking to get something a bit more
> > power conservative than this old desktop tower.
> >
> > The old machine has an AMD A8-3850 APU with 1TB HDD and 4GB Ram,
> > sitting on a A75M-HVS motherboard. I'm hoping I can just build/buy
> > a replacement of some sort and load the clonezilla backup directly
> > onto the new disk and just boot up, reinstalling the grub boot
> > loader from livecd? Or will I have to reinstall if it's going onto
> > different hardware?
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions on what to get or where to look?
> > Intel vs AMD?
> My suggestion would be to keep your existing hardware, as it would
> seem more than sufficient for the required functions.  I would throw
> a couple of 2TB hybrid SATA drives in there and give it some more
> RAM, I think the board will support 16GB, but 8GB would probably be
> OK.

Besides the preceding, I'd recommend spending $100 more and buying a
256GB SSD to serve as /. That way all /etc, /usr/bin,
and /usr/local/bin load lightning fast, while your /home based data
files have room to roam on the coupl 2tb hybrid SATAs.

The other good thing about doing it this way is you can format your
SATA drives UEFI to get every last GB (if they happen to be bigger than
2.4GB each), yet boot mbr to the little SSD. This is the way my Daily
Driver Desktop is set up, and it works marvelously.

SteveT

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