I've purchased a large external harddrive (Western Digital 320GB USB2/FireWire) for backup of all Rivendell's music and webpages. Hopefully this will secure our existence for a long time. I've also bought a new chassi/CPU-fan (Arctic Cooling 3 TC) for our beloved master radio server. It will hopefully be even cooler and more quiet than before. It's rather noisy at the moment. I will hopefully install these shortly. An extremely large THANK YOU goes out to all our donor! Without this it wouldn't be possible.

What ever you all explained, you will work it all out. My brain is not computer literate. But as long as you get to work out all your server problems and all that needs to be done, yeah for our Lord Elrond! Radio Rivendell will be up and on the internet for all of us to listen too! You always keep improving things.

I've tested the new harddrive, it works great Thank you all. I will copy the MP3s and other stuff as soon as have installed my 100mbit switch. The old 10mbit hub I use now is extremely crappy

There, all MP3s and webpages are backed up. Also tested firewire for the first time. Wow! I like it more than USB2! I will install the new chassis fan some day too. Though I'd like to get bigger holes in it though. We'll see...

What are the specs of the main RR server ? (And yes FireWire has been great for me as well)

It's something like this: Pentium Celeron 2.4GHz 1024 MB RAM 200GB SATA hard drive Shuttle chassi Currently running Windows XP Professional though I'll change to Linux one day when I learnt it enough. Everything payed for by donations

we want pics

There is one picture of the case here in the forum. Who finds it first wins... uhm... wins a.. hug or something

I have taken a few pictures of when I changed the thermal paste of the processor and switched the fan the first time. Will put those and some new ones when I install the new fan that I have here in a drawer.

I've finally installed the new chassis fan so now it's more quiet. Also removed the noisy chipset fan. I hope it will not melt too soon I need to make the PSU a bit more silent to. It's rather noisy. Anyone has any ideas? It's a small form factor Shuttle box.

Hello Elrond and other interested....i found very nice (and big) but silently cool-fan for modern AMD and Intel Core's..... High Performance Zalman-CNPS9500 AM2 http://www.frostytech.com/articleimages/200605/zalmanCNPS9500am2_rear.jpg

Haha, I fear that fan is bigger than the whole server! My server is a Shuttle box, rather cube-shaped, sitting beneath my TV. Hmm... I actually think I've changed the case/cpu fan by now... yes, I think so