Raven

Raven is a desktop computer.

History

Started out with the Raptor drive as the system drive and a second 3.5" Maxtor 200GB data drive. Now the Raptor is the data drive and the system is on the SSD.

Fall 2009 upgrade with SSD Spring 2009 - initial build

Hardware

• Shuttle SX48P2 Deluxe case and motherboard
• Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz
• 8GB DDR3 1066 memory
• Patriot "Warp V2" 32 GB SSD, SATA I/II, 2.5" s/n MK050943085B30039
• Western Digital Raptor 10K RPM SATA, WDC WD3000HLFS-01G6U0, s/n WD-WXLY08084357

The case includes a fingerprint scanner and a wifi card, neither of which I have ever used.

Software

It is currently running 9.10 Ubuntu.
I often use it to run VMWare Workstation so that I can use ESRI ArcGIS.