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Re:Atom 330 or D525 or D510? 12 Jun 2012 17:03 #20860

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What does vibration have to do with hard drive choice?

I think I'm patient enough for the boot up of linux although I don't know how long it would take as I have not tried it yet.

I have a spare IDE hard drive, but sadly I cannot find an IDE connector on the d525mw motherboard.
I guess I'll just get a SATA HDD off ebay.

I hope I made the right choice on the D525 over the Atom 330 because it's faster in everything, but correct me if I am wrong.

I also realized I only saved $5-15 by getting a used D525MW board instead of a brand new D525MW setup and could have gotten it cheaper, not much savings I got and it was my mistake, but I am trying to not make a big deal out of it because at least I saved something.
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Re:Atom 330 or D525 or D510? 12 Jun 2012 17:12 #20861

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gera229 wrote:
What does vibration have to do with hard drive choice?
Vibration kills hard drives.
I also realized I only saved $5-15 by getting a used board instead of a brand new setup and could have gotten it cheaper, not much savings I got and it was my mistake, but I am trying to not make a big deal out of it because at least I saved something.
You are also in the right part of the bathtub curve. (your board won't die young)
For a HD, someone here found this the other day:
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227811
Though I have tended to use DOM modules which plug into the SATA socket direct:
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/150593568661
A base install of LinuxCNC from the LiveCD is 2.3GB. 8GB is actually plenty.
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Re:Atom 330 or D525 or D510? 12 Jun 2012 17:34 #20862

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Yeah that's what I am concerned about, but at least I saved something. Should I be concerned that I only saved a little?
I got a board that was in like new condition so I'm guessing it wasn't used any longer than a month.
Was it worth it to save about $10 by buying a like new setup instead of a brand new setup?

I do not think my PC will really be on the same table as the CNC machine. But I'll see about that SSD, I'm just peaky with Chinese quality.
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Re:Atom 330 or D525 or D510? 12 Jun 2012 23:21 #20864

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Also how do I convert the file that I attached to g code.

I attached a file of an enclosure that I want to cut out of wood using a router CNC, not a laser CNC because the services are expensive and I have access to a router CNC so I can do it all by myself.
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Re:Atom 330 or D525 or D510? 12 Jun 2012 23:25 #20865

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Here is the electronics enclosure attached in dxf format. This attachment is hidden for guests. Please log in or register to see it.
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Re:Atom 330 or D525 or D510? 13 Jun 2012 02:25 #20869

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Hi

Afraid your zip is corrupted, can't open it.

What you probably want is dxf2gcode
http://code.google.com/p/dxf2gcode/

regards
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