Post by Admin on Nov 24, 2022 13:57:26 GMT 10
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I used this machine in my daytime job, going back some 16 years ago. It was a well-built small-form computer, equipped with an enterprise version of Windows 2000. Not much computing power even at the time (circa 2006), but it did an adequate job as a terminal emulator, email reader, and light word processing machine. Eventually it was decommissioned and discarded by my company when the support for Windows 2000 ended. I was allowed to take it home as a souvenir.
I installed Windows XP PRO on it, and gave it to my young niece to play games and learn computing. She soon outgrew it and returned the machine to me. It then sat in my garage for years, until one day I had to do a big clean-up. Before tossing it out, I decided to open it up and take a close look to see what can be salvaged. That's when I noticed that in addition to the 40 GB IDE hard disk, it also has a SATA disk connector on the motherboard. This is a very compact machine, and there is not much room under the cover, but as it happened, the existing MAXTOR hard disk has an unusually low profile, allowing me to place a SSD disk directly on top of it. I was pleasantly surprised to find out just how much its performance was improved by installing the SSD. So instead of going to the rubbish tip, this HP-Compaq d530 computer still sits under my desk, and gets switched on once in a while, just for old times' sake !
I used this machine in my daytime job, going back some 16 years ago. It was a well-built small-form computer, equipped with an enterprise version of Windows 2000. Not much computing power even at the time (circa 2006), but it did an adequate job as a terminal emulator, email reader, and light word processing machine. Eventually it was decommissioned and discarded by my company when the support for Windows 2000 ended. I was allowed to take it home as a souvenir.
I installed Windows XP PRO on it, and gave it to my young niece to play games and learn computing. She soon outgrew it and returned the machine to me. It then sat in my garage for years, until one day I had to do a big clean-up. Before tossing it out, I decided to open it up and take a close look to see what can be salvaged. That's when I noticed that in addition to the 40 GB IDE hard disk, it also has a SATA disk connector on the motherboard. This is a very compact machine, and there is not much room under the cover, but as it happened, the existing MAXTOR hard disk has an unusually low profile, allowing me to place a SSD disk directly on top of it. I was pleasantly surprised to find out just how much its performance was improved by installing the SSD. So instead of going to the rubbish tip, this HP-Compaq d530 computer still sits under my desk, and gets switched on once in a while, just for old times' sake !
