So we're setting up to stream the animals from our teaching zoo to the web. Talked to ITS, ordered a machine to do it with... told them "don't care about cd/dvd reader, don't care about hard drive size, need 4gb ram and a fast CPU w/ multiple cores, must have full size tower case with at least 3 available PCI slots". Machine came in, but I was busy so I stuck it in a corner. Until this morning...
Open it up, has 2 optical drives (both DVD+- R/RW). 12gb ram (thats good but more than needed ... oh well, not my budget). Only has *one* available PCI slot. Other options are AGP slots
. And a 1.5tb drive - about 1.45tb bigger than I need.
Hopefully the built in USB ports are on at least 3 different USB busses... but probably not. We'll see.
Lessons learned - don't let others order my stuff. Double check what is delivered as soon as it comes in.