Server Upgrade

» 2 Jun 2006, 2:50pm in technology - 0 comments

With the new HTPC installed and running, the parts from the old one had to go somewhere. So this webserver (which also doubles as my home file/media server) has been upgraded from an AMD Athlon 800MHz "Thunderbird" to an AMD Athlon XP-M 2500+ running at 2GHz. I've also installed the 160GB hard disk from the old HTPC, where it will be the primary media storage drive for the new HTPC.

You probably won't notice much difference while browsing the site, as only a couple of functions are CPU-bound. Perhaps a miniscule amount of responsiveness, but not likely. I, on the other hand, will notice big improvements in thumbnail image generation, kernel and software compiling, and less CPU usage when downsampling audio files on the fly for streaming. Since I'll be saving HDTV recordings from the HTPC, the upgrade will help keep things running smoothly in terms of I/O and RAM performance.

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