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PCs (desktops)


bluey

Provenance

ADC purchased at VT auction (part of set of 2 for $34 total) in Feb. 2025.

Specs

Unless otherwise noted, components came with the PC as purchased.

CPU

2x Intel Xeon e5-2630 v3

8 cores, 16 threads (virtual cores) each: 32 virtual cores total

https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/xeon-e5-2630-v3.c2866

Memory

Storage

Main drive: SATA SSD

240 GB SSD (/dev/sda) holds:

- / (root) (/dev/sda1; 146 GB) and

- /home (/dev/sda3; 46 GB) partitions,

- and a swap partition (/dev/sda4; 26.9 GB).


Secondary drive: 2TB SATA HDD

Seagate Barracuda 2TB purchased end of February 2025 (2025-02).

Installed in bluey on 2025-03-02.

Formatted to ext4 using gnome-disks.

Named volume dbox_backup


Older Dropbox backup HDD

Maybe purchased in 2020? Seagate Barracuda 2TB.

Also contains photos from 2011, 2012, and backups of older computers.

Contents of HDD with UUID beginning with bb5347b0

2025-02-25 adc added to /etc/fstab:
UUID=bb5347b0-f19e-4f70-864a-e0cae093805c /media/home2TB auto rw,user,auto 0 0

adc removed this HDD on 2025-03-02.


Power Supply

685W PSU (externally removable)

Nathaniel's gaming Windows PC

(Also ADC's “old bluey” – Linux PC formerly named bluey – same model.)

Dell Precision T1700 small form factor desktop i.pcmag.com_imagery_reviews_07yk7eul2tpeedlnjhok4oh-5..v1569474534.jpg

https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/precision-t1700-workstation/prect1700sffompub-v1/specifications?guid=guid-898e7752-4bb3-4e57-8251-51ae26dd6158&lang=en-us

Specs

Memory

16 GB

HyperX HX316C10FBK2/16
16GB (8GB 1G x 64-Bit x 2 pcs.)
DDR3-1600 CL10 240-Pin DIMM Kit

https://www.kingston.com/dataSheets/HX316C10FBK2_16.pdf

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