New EJBDESK 2024

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Overview

EJBDESK is 6 years old and will not run any Microsoft OS beyond Windows 10. It is also obsolete in other ways, particularly the boot drive, which is a SATA SSD, and a 6th generation Core i5 processor with 4 cores. I am replacing it with a Lenovo S3 tower workstation that I bought through the Intel Retiree purchase plan with a pretty good discount on April 9, 2024.

Hardware

Lenovo ThinkStation P3 Tower Workstation. This is a full size tower, so there is room to add stuff

• 13th Generation Intel® Core™ i5-13500 vPro® Processor
• Memory: 2 x 16 GB DDR5-4400MHz (UDIMM)
• 2 x DataPort to HDMI dongle. My monitors have DataPort inputs, but these dongles are $25 for two, so if I don't use them, they might be handy to have on hand.
  • Update: the DataPort inputs on the monitors work fine and it is easy to switch between HDMI on the old computer and DPort on the new one during the transition.
• M.2 SSD Gen4 boot drive (1TB)
• Integrated ethernet and graphics (no extra hardware)
• No WiFi, no keyboard, no mouse.
  • Using existing Logitech keyboard and trackball
  • No need for wireless because it is a fixed machine on ethernet
• 3 in 1 card reader for camera cards ($5)
• 2 x Storage kits for installing my 4TB Raid 1 content storage.
  • Turns out I only needed one storage kit because the chassis came with one installed, including cables. I returned the extra one.

Raid Physical Move

The plan is to just move the drives. Windows should recognize them as a raid. Update: There is a function in the disk manager for rescanning the disks. I had to do this to get the system to recognize the mirrored volumes, then it went into an extended time of "resynching," presumably the check that the volumes are properly synchronized to form a raid array. Based on research, I think I was supposed to disconnect the mirrored volumes from the original system before I moved them.

During resynch, one of the drives started with 100% utilization, so the raid was very slow. After waiting over night, the two drives are running at just over half utilization (resynch 65% done), so I was able to do a backup on the raid. Update: resynching is finished.

IP address

This machine is on 192.168.1.71 connected via ethernet

Software

• Windows 11 Pro 64

Installation Plan

• Reinstall all software I want to keep
  • Topaz tools
    • Topaz Photo AI
    • Topaz DeNoise AI
    • Topaz Adjust AI
    • Topaz Gigapixel AI
    • Topaz Studio 2
    • Topaz Mask AI
    • Topaz Sharpen AI
    • Topaz JPEG to RAW AI
  • LibreOffice ✔
  • Messenger (Meta) ✔
  • Norton 360 ✔(removed license from old machine)
  • VLC Media Player ✔
  • EPSON sCAN ✔
  • TurboTax 2023
  • PyCharm Community ✔
  • Python 3.12 ✔
  • Synology Drive Client ✔
  • Adobe Acrobat ✔
  • Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop (This manages all my adobe prescription stuff) ✔
  • iDrive (cloud backup) ✔ installed, transferred to new computer, initial backup successful
  • IrfanView ✔
  • JAlbum
  • Solidworks
  • AVS tools
    • Audio Editor
    • Document Converter
    • Disk Creator
    • Audio Converter
    • Image Converter
    • Media Player
    • Video ReMaker
    • Video Converter
    • Photo Editor
  • Disk Drill (recover deleted files)
  • WinDirStat ✔
  • VEGAS Pro 18.0 ✔ license transferred
  • Elgato Video Capture
  • FireFox
  • Chrome ✔
  • Google Drive ✔
  • UltraEdit, UltraCompare ✔ license entered
  • Oracle VM Virtualbox ✔
    • And VMs I have (VMs copied, not working windows XP is the only one I have care about, so I can run corel 8. Installed Ubuntu.)
  • Kindle reader ✔
  • BitTorrent ✔ (but no torrent source at this point. Good for torrent based downloads if needed)
  • Better File Rename ✔, but problem with the license
  • CyberPower UPS software (wait until hardware is attached)
  • Discord ✔ logged in through qr code on phone
  • FileZilla ✔ -- still need to add ftp server login stuff
  • Git for windows ✔
  • LinuxLive USB Creator
  • Perigee copy
  • PrivateInternetAccess ✔ installed and running. Need to find the dedicated ip token they gave me before...
  • Visual Studio Code
  • WinRar
  • Zoom

• Possible reinstalls (not on day one)
  • Folder Size Explorer
  • Autodesk tools
  • OpenShot Video Editor
  • AOMEI tools
  • Amazon Photos
  • Handbrake
  • NX Studio (raw file software)
  • InkJet printer support stuff
    • But we never use that printer, so maybe we just get rid of it...

File Transfers

There are a lot of files in my user area and on the C drive that need to be copied over. Doing this with an external ssd as a sneakernet. My main content is on the V: drive, a software RAID that I will physically move to the new computer.

• User area files:

Lots of documents going back through history. This needs to be cleaned up, but for now, I am just moving them over. Done see comments above.

Physical Swap

The old machine is connected to

• Uninterruptable power supply. Just need to unplug it and plug in the new one and connect the usb cable.
• Scanner by USB
• Powered speakers. Need to add adapter for trrs socket on new machine
• Logitech keyboard and trackball. These are wireless and (I think) share one usb dongle.
• Logitech USB webcam

Connect network printer

• This magically already happened