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Is the HP Z820 Workstation Class Machine…
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Thanks, Joe. Soooooo pissed. I’m home, my front door is open, but I just got an email from fedex saying they tried to deliver the package but NO ONE WAS HOME!!! Grrrrr….
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Not coming until tomorrow. B**tards.
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They obviously didn’t try very hard. Relax…breathe in…breathe out…make nasty call to FedEx office…
Joe Bourke
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Hey Joe. For some reason I no longer get email notifications when someone responds to this thread. Did I use up my allotment? 😉
Believe me, Fedex won’t want to hear from me again for a while. The driver promised he’d be here by 10 a.m. but I just texted him and he said he’s in traffic and would be closer to 10:30 which is around the time he would have been here anyway. He doesn’t know I’m here all the time anyway, he thinks he’s keeping me from going to work for a second day. This is America in 2016. Even Fedex drivers are full of it!!!
I’m waiting for it to be delivered before I lay into this guy’s manager. I also plan on inconveniencing him by taking a ……real……long…….time……to…..sign….my……..signature…. if you know what I mean, heheheh… I’m not a vindictive person but I hate when I do things right and the other clown screws up but I have to pay for it and they make NO effort to rectify the situation. I would have had all day yesterday to set up and use the computer, now, as soon as it gets here, I have to go out and get some exercise for me and my son, and just do a bunch of stuff that I didn’t have to do yesterday. I mean, I’ve only got so many years of brain functionality left, you know? 😉
Anyway, I’ll leave you to your work. Oh, since I decided I WILL be adding a second HDD, what do I have to do to it once I install it? Do I have to format it or do anything for the computer to recognize it and assign it a letter? It’s been so long since I’ve done this stuff. Also, I see that I can get a 2TB Seagate HDD for $53 bucks. Are they any good? Any reason why you suggested that 500 Gig drive instead?
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Most definitely stick it to FedEx – it’s just the right thing to do. As far as email notifications, it may be that they just get turned off for some random reason. I notice that my location, which is NH, has been NH, and will be NH, changes randomly – sometimes I show up in Maine, sometimes in Idaho – just random stuff. Maybe try resetting the switch to notify.
As far as the new hard drive, physically adding it is a walk in the park with the Z800 – just pull out one of the sleds, pop the drive in (no tools necessary), and fire up the computer. If it’s a brand new drive, you’ll have to go to Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Storage, and you’ll see your drives. You’ll need to format the drive, see this:
https://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/install-remove-hard-disk-drive#1TC=windows-7
I have bought 2 Seagate 2TB drives, one brand new, and one an open box return from B&H, for under 50 bucks. Both work just fine, one in my Drobo (8TB backup system), and one waiting in queue in case a drive goes south. I’ve had very good luck with Seagate drives, of course bearing in mind that a lot of it is luck. Sometimes you get a lemon – sometimes you don’t, but the failure rate for Seagate drives is not bad at all. Seagate and Western Digital seem to be the reliable leaders right now. No reason at all for suggesting the 500GB drive – it was just a good price when I searched for it.
If you really want to geek out, here’s a link to drive failure rates by drive size for Q3, 2015. It will drive you nuts, but it’s interesting. The 2TB drives seem to have a higher rate of failure, but I haven’t experienced that personally. My Drobo has been cooking right along for several years, with 2TB drives, and only 1 has failed recently – and that purchase was a used system, so I don’t know how long the drives have been cooking away. The Seagate Barracuda’s seemed to have a higher failure rate, if I’m reading the chart correctly:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q3-2015/
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Got it at 10:18. I wanted to get a DVI to HDMI converter so i could keep both computers hooked up to the TV, but Walmart wanted $17 bucks, so I ordered one for $3.00. I can wait. Will now shut down and begin the installation of the Z800. Wish me luck!
Oh, thanks for the HDD installation info. Exactly what I wanted to know.
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Woohooooo!!! Have fun. One thing to bear in mind is that there are settings (I think they’re in BIOS – the HP docs will tell you) which can allow you to have the fans all kick on – a self test I assume – on startup. When I first fired up my Z800, it sounded like a B-17 taking off. I managed to change that later on, as I learned about all the settings you can customize…
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com -
ok right off the bat I’m noticing that it’s extremely slow simply transferring a 800 meg file to my desktop. I have a flash drive with all my adobe apps on them. I just dragged Premiere Pro (797 meg) and the latest update (273 meg) and they took almost a minute, whereas my baby PC takes less than a second. What up with that?
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The Z800 is USB 2.0 – maybe your baby PC is USB 3.0? Another thought, mentioned in this link:
https://superuser.com/questions/493295/extremely-slow-usb-transfer-speed
is that the BIOS settings may be set to “legacy” mode, which would be USB 1.0. You can change that, from what they say above. I did not see that problem on my Z800, so I’m not familiar with it, but it sounds like that may be the case. As you can see, there’s going to be a shakedown cruise to get everything optimized.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com -
Here’s more on that possibility:
https://www.computing.net/answers/hardware/fix-slow-file-transfer-to-flash-drive/84479.html
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com
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