I just ordered that second Raptor drive. Just got a new temporary job, and thought to spend some of those money on computer upgrades, came to think of another Raptor just two weeks after I bought that first one. Ouch, I hope I'm not sounding like one of those boastful creeps here. 😛
Nah. If I wasn't married I'd be spending a lot more money on my computer.
The P4 2.4C and 2.6C are both excellent choices. Hope you can afford one soon. After the 2.8C, you start to lose the price/performance ratio anyway.
Yeah. I'm leaning towards the 2.6C. It's kind of like the 19" monitor that I want to get. It's not the 21" that I'd prefer, but it's better than a 17".
It's that whole darned middle road logic.
Of course. RAID 5 is the very best alternative, hands down. If the quality RAID controllers went down in price, not expensive, but not cheap, and if I could get a THIRD Raptor drive (shrugs at the thought 😛) then I'd undoubtely think it'd be a good idea. 😉 Is RAID 5 much faster than RAID 0? You tell me, because I really don't have a clue.
You know, for three drives I'm not entirely sure. Generally I see four or five or so in a RAID5. When most people are spending that much, they don't just get three drives. Heh heh. I'm pretty sure that three in a RAID5 would be faster than two in a RAID0 though, but I doubt that it'd be by much. I'll have to ask my network admin friend. He'd know.
ugh. 5 drives on 15K RPM. Wow... 😛
It'd definitely take some time before I could afford that. 😉
Yeah. No kidding. It'd be a lifetime before I could save up <i>that</i> much at the rate that I'm going at.
🙁 It'd sure be sweet though.
Get a nice Xeon dualie mobo with built in SCSI and pick up a crap load of 15K RPM SCSI drives. It'd be RAID heaven, and for only four grand! :O I wish I could afford that. Hell, my next car loan might not even be for that much.
But, even 72 gigs comprised of two Raptors, and my Lite-on Cdrw OFTEN used for data safety is nothing I am nothing but very proud over, and I should be.
Damn straight. Two Raptors in a RAID0 is just nasty. And backing up your data is something to always be proud of. (Well, at least if you have data worth backing up it is. Heh heh.)
And DFI just released some new LANParty mobos with some new funky RAID 1.5. The mobos are darned expensive, but RAID 1.5 sounds like a good idea. It's a cross between RAID1 and RAID5. Take two hard drives, stripe them for speed, and store backup data while you do it. That way if a drive crashes you can recover. You get slightly better than RAID1 performance and data recoverability (although much slower than it takes to rebuild a RAID1), but without the massive loss of hard drive space of RAID1. Sure, you still lose <i>some</i>, but not a whole hard drive. The main downfall is that if you have to recover it's slow. Oh darn. Heh heh. I hope that some SATA RAID cards support this soon. (As well as some mobos maybe.) I'd have no qualms running Raptors in a RAID 1.5 array.
It sounds like a great notion to me, like RAID1 but without nearly as bad of a loss of storage space.
And if I had the mind to I'd burn important crap onto a CD more often. I just never remember.
🙁
I just hope it ain't too bothersome to other people that I, and some others have these powerful rigs. But I guess I just don't have a life sometimes 😛
Eh. Life is all about choices. You spend money on your computer. Someone else spends money on pimping out their car. I spend money on my wife. It's all good. I always love hearing about cool setups. You have to have something to dream about.
Ack. Backing up data is important you know 😛
I know. Good grief I know. It's a lesson that I've had to learn repeatedly. Yet I still forget. That's why I like RAID setups with recoverability. It's like the good backup practice fairy for people who keep forgetting.
That idea to use a simpler harddrive as backup is another good alternative, to use it for storing all those big files we all have 😉 And if you have the most important and often used files, games or programs on the faster hard drive, you will have both a system that could speed up the loading times when you need them, and also one that could store tons of big files, patch files and the like.
It's a handy trick.
"<i>Yeah, if you treat them like equals, it'll only encourage them to think they <b>ARE</b> your equals.</i>" - Thief from <A HREF="http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=030603" target="_new">8-Bit Theater</A>
Grantsdale is supposed to have PCI Express slots too, for graphics and other devices. Not bad, eh?
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