Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 49 Diskless Workstation

"No." Li Xiang said a little embarrassedly: "To be honest, my store has just opened not long ago. You are my first customer. I was thinking of selling the hard drives first before buying more."

"Okay, by the way, please keep an eye out for second-hand Celeron 1 desktop computers for me. The cheaper the better. Let me tell you first, my current purchase price is 800." Cheng Yi deliberately reported 100 yuan less.

"Okay, no problem. I'll contact you when the goods are available. What's your name?" Li Xiang realized that a big customer had arrived.

Cheng Yi said: "My name is Cheng Yi, this is my cell phone number."

He left Li Xiang a cell phone number, which Li Xiang held in his hands like a treasure.

After counting the cash, Cheng Yi stuffed it into Li Xiang's pocket and asked, "Can you please count the money first? Also, would you accept a used 10GB Quantum hard drive?"

"Yes, I'll take it for 200 yuan." Li Xiang said while counting the money.

"200 yuan?" Cheng Yi frowned slightly.

This price is too low.

The hard drive is the most expensive component in a computer.

In 1998, a 10G hard drive cost more than 3000 yuan.

After counting the money, Li Xiang looked up and smiled bitterly, saying, "The current market price is like this. A used 10GB hard drive sells for between 260 and 350. Besides, 10GB hard drives are really hard to sell right now."

"Okay, I have more than 100 yuan here. You can exchange it for your Celeron 1 computer when the time comes." Cheng Yi said with a smile.

"So many?" Li Xiang asked curiously, "Brother, what industry are you in? Why do you have so many hard drives?"

"Oh, I run an Internet cafe." Cheng Yi smiled.

"My boss runs an Internet cafe with 500 computers." Du Yusheng interjected.

"Brother, you are so awesome. You must take care of your brothers in the future." Li Xiang hesitated for a moment, then returned to the house and brought out a speaker. He stuffed it into Cheng Yi's pocket and said, "Brother, take this. Let's be friends."

"Okay." Cheng Yi nodded with a smile and glanced at Du Yusheng.

Du Yusheng immediately ran over and picked up the speaker.

Watching Cheng Yi leave, Li Xiang sighed, "This guy is amazing. He doesn't look that old, but he actually has an internet cafe with 500 computers."

The girl said, "Just now, this guy said he wanted a Celeron 1 computer? What does he need a computer like that for? It's almost out of date."

"I don't know either." Li Xiang shook his head.

The girl said, "Didn't Liuzi and the others say they'd have a batch of very cheap computers ready for disposal? Why don't you ask Liuzi?"

Li Xiang frowned and said, "Liuzi's computers are all junk shipped from overseas. Eighty percent of the ten computers won't turn on. Is this possible?"

"Just replace whatever is missing. You can assemble a computer, so why are you afraid that it won't turn on? At worst, we can provide after-sales maintenance services to that guy. As long as the price is low enough, we can make some money." The girl encouraged.

"You're right!" Li Xiang finally made up his mind, ran into the store and picked up the landline.

Back at the Internet cafe, Shi Lei and his team had already set up the local area network and started the vigorous battle of empires.

Lin Qingyin also changed her computer and is studying the local area network.

Seeing Cheng Yi coming back, Lin Qingyin immediately stood up and said hesitantly: "Cheng Yi, I just tested the diskless workstation with the computer here. The startup speed is too slow and it is completely unusable."

"Haha, that's because the hard drive's reading speed is too slow." Cheng Yi took out the newly bought hard drive and said with a smile: "Replace it with this one, and the speed will increase tenfold."

The 1998 Quantum hard drive had a seek time of 15ms, but the new hard drive in Cheng Yi's hand only has a seek time of 3ms and a rotation speed of up to 15000.

In terms of access speed-up, it is not as simple as 15 divided by 3. It is composed of seek time + rotation time + transmission time. A tenfold speed increase is already an understatement.

The attentive Zhang Lingyu had already moved all the LAN hosts to the side of the counter. Cheng Yi took out Lin Qingyin's computer and expertly inserted the newly purchased hard drive. He then reinstalled the system and said, "Try installing the diskless workstation again."

"Okay." Lin Qingyin took out the USB drive, loaded the diskless workstation program into the host computer again, and began to rebuild it. After more than half an hour, she said, "It's done."

"Fatty, turn on all computers 1-24." Cheng Yi turned around and shouted. "Okay." Du Yusheng immediately ran over and turned on the computers in the row on the left one by one.

In less than a minute after booting up, all thirty computers were connected to the desktop.

"Why is it so fast?" Zhang Lingyu also found it a little unbelievable. Before, it took at least one and a half minutes to boot up.

Cheng Yi walked over and unplugged all the hard drives from computers 1-24 without turning them off.

What is surprising is that even if the hard drive was unplugged, the 24 computers still remained in a stable boot state.

"Fatty, restart all computers."

"okay."

Du Yusheng restarted all 24 computers according to Cheng Yi's instructions. This time, the boot speed was significantly faster.

It took less than 40 second.

"What's the principle behind this?" Zhang Lingyu was completely stunned as she watched this magical scene.

Cheng Yi smiled and said, "This is called a diskless workstation. 24 computers only need one hard drive. Once a gigabit network card is available, 200 computers can use one hard drive."

"Can it be like this?" Zhang Lingyu felt her breathing quicken.

If other Internet cafes knew this, wouldn’t they go crazy?

This is simply too unbelievable.

With this thing, the cost of a computer is cut in half.

Cheng Yi smiled and said, "Open a computer, save something on the desktop, and then restart it."

Zhang Lingyu obediently followed Cheng Yi's instructions. When the computer restarted, she was shocked to find that the txt file saved on the desktop had disappeared.

She looked back at Cheng Yi and said in a trembling voice, "The file is lost."

"This is called system restore." Cheng Yi smiled and said, "As long as these 24 extensions are restarted, they will return to their original state. As long as the LAN host is not infected, these 24 computers will not be attacked by viruses. In the future, it will be difficult to hack any account and password logged into these computers, unless they themselves click on the Trojan horse."

"A powerful hacker can also transmit viruses to the host through the extension." Lin Qingyin added honestly.

Cheng Yi laughed and said, "Those powerful hackers don't realize that we use diskless workstations, haha."

Lin Qingyin whispered, "Also, this diskless workstation I built is not very stable yet. It needs maintenance and upgrades every few days."

"With you here, none of this is a problem."

Hearing Cheng Yi say this, Lin Qingyin was completely stunned.

It feels so good to be needed and valued.

Turning back, Cheng Yi looked at Zhang Lingyu, who was almost speechless from shock, and asked, "When will the telecom company come over to pull the network cable?"

"He should be here soon. It's scheduled for this afternoon." Zhang Lingyu replied quickly.

Cheng Yi smiled and said, "Okay, then our Momo Internet Cafe will officially open tomorrow!"

"Boss, can I be a network administrator?" Du Yusheng asked excitedly.

"Haha, Du Yusheng, you're not going to class? Two months of being a network administrator isn't enough to cover the registration fee, right?" Shi Lei and the others laughed.

Du Yusheng said, "Do you know how much Sister Lingyu earns? Six hundred yuan! My dream is to become a network administrator here after the training class is over."

"Six hundred?" Shi Lei and the others were all excited when they heard it, and shouted: "Brother Yi, we want to be network administrators too!"

　Thanks to Brother Bookworm and Chongxia for the monthly ticket! Thank you!!

　　
　
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