Knowing that you can’t stand the suspense of waiting to find out what my new desktop computer will be, I’ve already ordered one. It’s an Acer Veriton M275 E7600, and having soured on Dell, it will be the third Acer computer in the house.
Ugly box, eh? It’s intended to be a business computer, and that’s why it interests me, because it has Windows 7 Professional (64-bit), which is $80 more retail than Windows 7 Home Premium, but $100 more when ordering it as part of a customized Dell configuration. I’m fairly confident the 500 GB hard drive from the Dell Inspiron is still good, and the new computer also has a 500 gig disk, so I’m hoping to use Windows RAID 1 mirroring. I vaguely recall there are hassles when doing this on a C: drive, but I’ll either figure it out or add the second disk as a D: drive.
My external Western Digital USB drive has hardware RAID 1 mirroring. Unfortunately, it appears that WD has discontinued their Mirror Edition drives, but fortunately Amazon still has some, so I grabbed one.