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Building the Perfect PC
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Building the Perfect PC

by Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson
August 2004
Beginner
352 pages
13h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Hardware Design Criteria

With the functional requirements determined, the next step was to establish design criteria for the SOHO server hardware. Here are the relative priorities we assigned for our SOHO server. Your priorities may differ.

Here’s the breakdown:

Price

Price is moderately important for this system. We don’t want to spend money needlessly, but we will spend what it takes to meet our other criteria.

Reliability

Reliability is the single most important consideration.

Size

Size is unimportant. Our SOHO server ...

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