{"id":361,"date":"2020-05-31T10:32:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T18:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/thin-clients-how-to-assemble-a-cheap-computer\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T02:38:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T10:38:33","slug":"thin-clients-how-to-assemble-a-cheap-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/thin-clients-how-to-assemble-a-cheap-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Thin Clients &#8211; How to assemble a cheap computer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a pentium pro 333mhz and a pIII 933mhz setup as thin clients.<br \/>\n<!--adsense--><br \/>\nThis kind of junk can be found easily and most of the times without any cost \ud83d\ude42 The idea here is to have a typical client-server setup. I use SoThin for this and it does miracles for my kids! The server software is running on my home server (a mix of file server and media center right now). If you&#8217;re interested in this I recommend browsing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thin_client\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thin_client<\/a> Another tip for cheap computer parts. The HDs! I bougth 4 250gb HDs, IDE, one samsung and the rest Western Digital, on eBay. After formating them I mounted a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Logical_Disk_Manager\">dynamic partition<\/a> in a RAID like partition. 3 HDs as a single data unit with about 700gb and one for recovery if something happens. The price? A 3+1 RAID solution for 65 dollars? \ud83d\ude42 Try to find one in the market!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a pentium pro 333mhz and a pIII 933mhz setup as thin clients. This kind of junk can be found easily and most of the times without any cost \ud83d\ude42 The idea here is to have a typical client-server setup. I use SoThin for this and it does miracles for my kids! The server [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}