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Yeah, my next upgrade plans include dual raptors in RAID 0. Heh, data integrity? I am not overly worried as the Raptors should be pretty robust and with my home network humming along and finally biting the bullet and getting a DVD burner I am backed up to the hilt. Now as to when I will actually upgrade is another question, my main machines creaky 400MHz P4 2.4 @ 2.64 with an RDRAM board and 9700Pro are still keeping me awfully happy. The Hypersonics look like excellent machines although I have never heard of the company, going through the P4 configuration I did notice that you can knock 165.00 of the price right of the bat by going with the base case which is an excellent ATC Aluminum model. I configured it as I woulld like including dual raptors in RAID 0 and it came out 500+ dollars cheaper than the initial configuration. Jan-Albert van Ree wrote: Gnasher wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 08:36:42 +1000, "John Ward" wrote: Hi Kevin, Serial ATA 2 will be out soon, and, as the current ATA is said by some to be not quite up to scratch, I'd not worry about it yet. Not to mention it is way to expesnsive for the amount of HD space you get for the buck. I would buy SCSI before I would buy SATA. SCSI comes with it's own issues : - Extra PCI card needed - Usually higher power useage - Higher drive temperatures - Cost Apart from the somewhat small capacity, what's wrong with the new Western Digital Raptor series? They blow away EVERY other IDE drive, and almost all 7200 rpm SCSI drives. And they make less mess in your case, since Serial ATA cables are very compact, SPECIALLY compared to SCSI. |
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On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 08:36:42 +1000, "John Ward"
wrote: Hi Kevin, Serial ATA 2 will be out soon, and, as the current ATA is said by some to be not quite up to scratch, I'd not worry about it yet. Serial ATA 2 is just a bunch of extensions to SATA intended for use in servers. (quite usefull extensions, but not for a gaming machine) You are probably thinking about the faster speeds, but that isn;t interesting either. Simply because there is not a single harddisk that is limited by the speed of SATA1 or even by ATA/133. In fact, for a gaming rig I would just buy a recent 7k IDE HDD. Harddisks are not a bottleneck in games, (there are hardly used at all) unless you have the slow 4200 rpm laptop harddisks. Marc |
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