Transitioning from the Man Cave to the Dog Lounge.
Upgrades are inevitable.
After backing up more than a few hard drives (lots of images), it became apparent that I needed more hard drive space and better organization of my data. The most cost effective way to do this was to 'upgrade' an old HP Desktop that I have. It has been upgraded to a Two Terra-byte drive, a new cooling fan and a new operating system (Linux Lite)
Since I was tearing it apart, I thought I might as well do a little 'art' work on it and get rid of some of that old spray paint that has been cluttering up the Imagination Zone. Hence, the old Black Hewlett-Packard Desktop is now the Red Media Server. To make it look even more outstanding, I made a base for it from a discarded trash can and painted it bright blue. Ad in the custom tall shop stool and a $99 flat screen from Walmart and a Lava Lamp and you have the 'new' $220 media player.
As an added curio, I also dug out the old Iomega Peerless swap-able hard drive. Although their max capacity is only 20 gigabytes. For when you positively, absolutely have to back up something small, right away.
The servers only purpose is to store music and video content. Currently there is about 28 days worth of music and several weeks of video (binge watch MadMan or Cosmos anyone?). No streaming and no buffering in this dog lounge. The server is connected to the surround sound six speaker system for the lounge. So the Dog Lounge now has the best sound system of any canine palace in this section of the country.
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