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Upgrade Considerations
What happens if you wish to upgrade
or repair a slightly older system? Consider the CD-RW drive. On my older
200 MHz Pentium, the Hewlett Packard CD-Writer recently failed. (Searching
online I found many complained about failures of similarly-aged HP CD-RWs.)
Going online and to the store and
reading the system requirements for newer CD-RW drives tells us that
they all required 300 GHz systems or faster. So the solution would seem
be to look for a component that would work in the older system. Many
CD-RWs were on eBay.com, but I didn’t see any that I felt were
reasonably-priced. When purchasing smaller components on eBay.com, don’t
overlook the cost of the shipping.
A trip to a computer show might turn
up some CD-RWs. But, I didn’t really want to spend the time noodling
around for parts either. I could also experiment with newer CD-RWs operating
at slower write speeds or using older versions of the software that
the CD-RWs came with. But, I didn’t want to monkey around with
that either, because I didn’t want to spend the time.
Eventually, I just decided I’d
backup that system over a home network using another PC I had with a
fast CD-RW!
The lesson is that as you upgrade
older systems, at a certain point, you might just decide that it no
longer makes sense to upgrade the system. It’s easier and more
effective to just get a new system. Or, you might find other solutions,
such as not using the CD-RW and backing up the system over a network.
Just choose whichever upgrade, replacement, or workaround option seems
best for you and you’ll make the right choice!
Hint: Don’t worry about making
a wrong choice when selecting components. You’ll do a great job!
There seldom is a “wrong” choice.
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