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I've been doing quite a bit of computer system work. This is my 'main' machine, yes, still running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 but with a V10 vintage VMWare Windows 10 Pro 64.... a precursor to probably going dual boot to a native 10.
I managed to double my ram for a quarter the price of the first lot though I still need to remove the CPU cooler to fit slot 4 and 5 [it's an 8 slot MoBo] ... so currently 48gig of DDR4.
All 7 physical drives except one are now SSDs [one of those is an M.2 .... running the Win 7 OS even when that was yet to be supported.... there was a 'way'].
Changes to the system HD setup means I now have room for what will be a 64gig page file and I don't have to keep culling planes out of my 'H' drive for FSX from running out of room.
The reasoning for so many drives is the capacity to do redundancy backups - 6 of those are hot-swap.
My M.2 drive apparently has about 2.5 years of life left so I've ordered a replacement for when it snuffs it. By then it'll be 12 years old.
I'm not too sure I'll be around to care if/when the second one reaches end-of-life .... I might beat it there....![](//web.stardock.net/images/smiles/themes/digicons/Wink.png)
Oh, and Happy New Year, too. It was around this time in 2015 I first built this machine....![](//web.stardock.net/images/smiles/themes/digicons/Wink.png)