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On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 04:19:49 GMT, ah wrote:
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 02:38:37 +0100, Peter Hucker wrote:
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:37:25 GMT, ah wrote:
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 19:12:23 +0100, Peter Hucker wrote:
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 23:25:37 GMT, ah wrote:
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 00:01:42 +0100, Peter Hucker wrote:
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:47:32 GMT, ah wrote:
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:11:58 +0100, Peter Hucker wrote:
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:53:02 GMT, ah wrote:
Hold that wallet a bit until you're su
most "slowness" is because of the storage-bus bottleneck.
You could have 5 terabytes of storage accessible by a
liquid-nitrogen-cooled 14CPU system, but still get the
responsiveness of a 80386.
Of course, XP is a bottleneck in, and of, itself.
I removed the storage bottleneck. Four 250MB 7200rpm drives
connected to a £250 3ware 66MHz/64bit PCI RAID card. The
processors can't write data that fast!
Besides I have 2GB of RAM, soon to be 3GB.
Try SCSI 320.
I don't have THAT many credit cards. How much for a terrabyte of SCSI
disks?
Probably about £4,000
It's a stupid price. And people keep telling me it ain't a lot better
than IDE. It most definitely is not worth the price. You'd be better
getting more of the IDE stuiff for the same price, and ending up with a
higher capacity, and more drives to put on a bigger raid.
I'm making the switch when I can . . . it's the only bottleneck I know.
A real ****er, if you ask me.
Switching TO scsi?
Correct.
Why bother? It's not all it's hyped up to be. Just get more IDE.
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