So I'd known for a while that my time to upgrade was coming. I'd built my previous system in early 2004, and at the time, it was an absolute beast: two 3.06GHz Xeon processors, two gigabytes of RAM, and a handful of hard disks, with two of the 250GB disks in a mirrored
RAID array, to protect my valuable project data. For a variety of reasons, though, lately it had become incredibly difficult to ...