So I was thinking about my sad multi-purpose server that has served me so well fo years and years now. Its a sad server because it has at least one failing harddrive, mostl likely two or three, and only 512MB of RAM. When I recalled seeing a 512MB stick of PC133 RAM kicking around when I was cleaning my place up. So because I couldn't recall, I looked up the specs for the board in my sad server and it takes PC133. Then I took a look inside my server and happy day, I've got a single free slot free to accomodate that 512MB stick-o-ram.

The problem is I am hesitatnt to take the server down to perform the upgrade. For fear of the server not starting back up. It hasn't really been off off for quite some time now, rebooted but not really off off. I fear a drive will refuse to spin up or function. The other reason is I've got close to 120 days of uptime on it and I don't want to ruin the long run. If I am going to take it down I want to do more than just add a bit of ram and make it more worth my while. While I do have a couple drives around that are larger I don't know what their health is like nor do I want to invest the time in replacing a failing drive with another drive that could be failing as well. Maybe one of these weekends when I'm home or something goes very bad wrong o shit boom I'll do these upgrades....