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Question of the Day: Do you think Bafana Bafana will win tonight?
SSD prices falling
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d0b33
Honorary Master
Yeah thanks, in my basket already just waiting for the price of the 64GB SSDs to come down.
killadoob
Honorary Master
What if there was a hijack and stolen out the trunk of a Dell employers car?
But I'll give it the benefit of the doubt
Well if that happened and we did not buy others would have.
Its a dog eat dog world out there. as much as people do not want to believe this, crime is an integral part of society, don't want to go into too much detail but without crime you would have no police, hardly any insurance other than car and fire, no security guards, no jails, no courts etc. Can you imagine the impact of a crime free world? 1/6 of the working population out of a job including the bad guys.
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Sounds like the "Broken window fallacy" to me. It could be applied to crime as well.
Think about what you are saying there. I would love to live in that crime free world.
killadoob
Honorary Master
Yes of course i would love to live in a world with no crime but you cannot due the job loss would be catastrophic. Yes my thoughts are exactly that but i am not saying people should turn to crime to create jobs
.Did you read the link I posted?
killadoob
Honorary Master
Yup not the entire thing as it was late 
d0b33
Honorary Master
Some crimes are tolerable to me like selling goods without tax, illegal manufacturing, selling drugs... but theft is not tolerable.
Stevie G
Banned
Hi Guys
How would you rate a 15rpm scsi drive against a ide/sata raptor drive. which one is better and why?
also if you run both in RAID whith 2 drives, which will be better and how close would the 15rpm scsi and raptor be in single drive or in RAID mode with 2 drives.
just wondering as i am gettin me a 73gig 15rpm seagate scsi drive as a bootup for xp.
will it be worth doing so rather then a 7200rpm drive that takes forever to bootup.
How would you rate a 15rpm scsi drive against a ide/sata raptor drive. which one is better and why?
also if you run both in RAID whith 2 drives, which will be better and how close would the 15rpm scsi and raptor be in single drive or in RAID mode with 2 drives.
just wondering as i am gettin me a 73gig 15rpm seagate scsi drive as a bootup for xp.
will it be worth doing so rather then a 7200rpm drive that takes forever to bootup.
The 15ks are pretty quick! I have a server with 2 RAID1 72GB Seagate disks and it boots 10 windows XP images in under a minute (it boots one desktop in about 7 or 8 seconds!).... Not sure if Raptors could do that....
As far as RAID is concerned, a lot of the benefit depends on the controller and the type of work that you do. If you just want a performance improvement perhaps you should get an SSD, its cheaper than a 15K Seagate + SCSI card?
BTW, how much are you spending?
As far as RAID is concerned, a lot of the benefit depends on the controller and the type of work that you do. If you just want a performance improvement perhaps you should get an SSD, its cheaper than a 15K Seagate + SCSI card?
BTW, how much are you spending?
killadoob
Honorary Master
Well those drives still have highish seek times compared to SSD's, might win the battle of transfer but raw speed it will lose badly i think.
You should rather look at buying that ssd in the link in this thread, how much you paying for everything and how big is the drive because a 120gb ssd is 5k and the speed is simply amazing if you ask me.
You should rather look at buying that ssd in the link in this thread, how much you paying for everything and how big is the drive because a 120gb ssd is 5k and the speed is simply amazing if you ask me.
Stevie G
Banned
Well im not looking into spending some cash.
I have a Adaptec SCSI Card 29160 and a Ultra160-LVD/SE 68pin cable. bought a 73gig Seagate 373454LW scsi drive for R150, but the drive is faulty as it cannot initialize in win xp.tells me the media is write-protected.told the guy i have a problem with the drive and he gave me a another that did not even have power on it.we meeting again tomorrow and he is giving me another 1.they all are identical.hope that this one will be working, otherwise looking to get a refund.
if it works i will be using it a bootup drive for xp and just load all the necessary drivers and programs that i normally uses.
my 750gig WD is damn too slow will all the stuff i have on their.
you guys have any suggestions if i should go that route with the scsi drive or not
I have a Adaptec SCSI Card 29160 and a Ultra160-LVD/SE 68pin cable. bought a 73gig Seagate 373454LW scsi drive for R150, but the drive is faulty as it cannot initialize in win xp.tells me the media is write-protected.told the guy i have a problem with the drive and he gave me a another that did not even have power on it.we meeting again tomorrow and he is giving me another 1.they all are identical.hope that this one will be working, otherwise looking to get a refund.
if it works i will be using it a bootup drive for xp and just load all the necessary drivers and programs that i normally uses.
my 750gig WD is damn too slow will all the stuff i have on their.
you guys have any suggestions if i should go that route with the scsi drive or not
If you can, and its cheap then go for it!! Having two disk will be quicker than one, if you split OS and apps/page file etc. DO you have a contact number for the R150 disks?? I need to buy a dozen or so??