What I wanted = A program to scan my collection of disk drives and say things along the lines of 'Whoa pal, this disk is so old Noah used it for his laptop on the ark!' What I got: An anime girl reading my disks and telling me the current price of petrol somewhere in the world. Look, I don't know what's going on here either! Surely it can't be that hard to do a little background check on my disks here can it?
I've ventured into the back shed (aka the Boneyard) and unearthed a few more pieces to throw at Project: Garage Intelligence although one part seems complete overkill and now I'm also wondering if this thing really does need Bluetooth on board..
It's amazing the things you have. I mentioned in the very first post on Project Garage Intelligence that I had no idea what was plugged in the WiFi slot on the motherboard, I assumed it was some ages old networking add on I scored from a workplace somewhere and haven't used since. But nay, it's actually a:
TP LINK T5E Ac1200 Wi-Fi Bluetooth 4.2 PCIe Adapter
Which memory serves I picked up on special about 5 years ago when I first moved to town and one of the USB dongles on the kids computers wasn't up to snuff anymore? I think that's the back story on this part. Also I think one of the screw ports on the back might be slightly bent after something something my son dropped something something on it, bang. Regardless, I didn't realize I had a couple of options of networking here because I can use this or perhaps this:
It's an ASUS...something. (Perplexity thought it was a M2 x 16 expansion card which is horribly wrong.) A WiFi card that gives A.I mass confusion until you use your phone to zoom in and enlarge the teeny tiny fine print on the sticker on the back:
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| Ahh there we go, the good ole PCE-AC68! That's what it is! |
And even though it's an antenna short of the three it came with (it's around here somewhere I swear) and it doesn't have a Bluetooth option, Perplexity is standing by it as the pick of the bunch. Given that the ASUS unit is supposedly 50% faster, I'll take speed any day. After all, the quicker my hand rolled AI can tell me to dump a stock or analyze a horse race for the best winner, the better!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE. OR THE MACHINE IN THIS CASE.
Powering up the board and the world's least hungry components here in project Garage Intelligence is the complete overkill Antec Truepower 750. Originally arriving with the old gaming PC, it's most recent foray was being complete overkill for an office PC that was so slow in loading, you could easily make breakfast and coffee first and have a smoke or a vape before it was ready to roll.
It's completely overkill here too (unless A.I suddenly becomes both memory and power hungry?) powering up the board, a few drives and a graphics card that barely identifies at once but at least it's repurposed and not sitting in the back shed gathering dust.
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| Prepare yourself for a very lazy workday pal! |
Kingston 60GB SSDNOW300 - Pulled from a student laptop yonks ago that I bought for $20. Was both the only and also the best thing I could salvage from it.
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB - Where did this even come from? I have no idea. But that's 120GB I didn't have before and if it works, into Garage Intelligence it goes!
OCZ Vertex 3 SSD 60GB - Inherited from the boss, completely unknown. Although I have a vague memory that it may even have a copy of Windows 8 on it for some reason. Yes it's that old and still working, go old tech!
WD Hdd 500GB - Given the size, there must be something wrong with it to end up in the bone yard but I can't remember what that is. Time to plug it in again and see if it spins!
WD HDD 250GB - From an on air radio broadcast computer. Hopefully will help Garage Intelligence do it's thing for as long as it can!
So I think that's pretty much most of what I need right now, time to cobble it together and work out a way to have a nice looking open style PC project without bits all over the shop. Wish me luck!
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