True ram used

[DeadEyeDeNNi$]

You don't have to hide behind fancy names. We all know that they have Linksys trivialities under the hood. :>

[mag36]

A general rule of thumb is if your using 40% of your RAM just at normal/idle conditions you need double the memory.
I Plan on buying me more RAM specifically Crucial Ballistix Tracer 6GB (3 x 2GB)
just cause I want a little more bling to my case
And probably 2 1TB of SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 in RAID 0

Read many good things about theses hard drive's performances

[DeadEyeDeNNi$]

A general rule of thumb is if your using 40% of your RAM just at normal/idle conditions you need double the memory.
I Plan on buying me more RAM specifically Crucial Ballistix Tracer 6GB (3 x 2GB)
just cause I want a little more bling to my case
And probably 2 1TB of SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 in RAID 0

Read many good things about theses hard drive's performances

Those look pretty good Mag, but I run these in Raid 0 and I have had NO probs and run great!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-563-_-Product

Before you say, "But the Samsungs have more storage space" - I run 4 HD's in most boxes and use them for the storage I need while using the Raptors for the OS etc.

Check the search time as it's fast and the 10k walks the dog

[StarsMine]

id rather have a 1 1tb 7200 then 4 300gb 10k drives
10k just isnt much faster, and raid 0 just makes me uncomfortable, one dive and boom

just get a SSD and a HDD

[DeadEyeDeNNi$]

id rather have a 1 1tb 7200 then 4 300gb 10k drives
10k just isnt much faster, and raid 0 just makes me uncomfortable, one dive and boom

just get a SSD and a HDD

Well Stars, heres the deal, If U think that the "BOOM" factor is limited to my RAID 0 vs your 1 TB then ur wrong.

ANY HD is subject to a "BOOM" factor and when that happens I don't give a rats ass wtf u are runing ALL info is GONE.

SO........ That's why they make 1-5TB back optional external HD to keep ur shit safe!


PLUS---------------- If U really wanna go techy then do a quad raid where u can mirror image a RAID 0 on a seperate set of Raptors OR any other comapatable pair of HD to have all ur goodies safe if u ever crash and burn...

LOL -- and u thot I was just another pretty face :P Not bad for an ol guy HUH ??


Cmon ppl I KNOW ur smarter than that :P


My next project is to build a SUPER COMPUTER with 4 boxes ALL identical with the best hardware avaiable atm + having them all linked operating under 1 entity

IF u have any links or advice,, let me know (pls don't insult my intelligence with a link to Toms Hdwr + I don't mean that in an belittling way)

[StarsMine]

I never said the boom factor was limited to raid 0, however it raises the chance of a drive failure quite a bit, 2 drives are 2 times as likely to fail, 3 drives are 3 times as likely to fail, and so forth. And raid 10(or 01... whatever the hell it is) that you describe is insanely expensive.

Drive failure is something that is not uncommon in my household, (both WD and Seagate, as thats what we usually get) so my uneasiness about drive failure is founded.

Although SSD raid 0 looks interesting to me as there failure rate is so small, and SSD raid 0 is alot more noticeable then HDD 10k(or hell even 15k) raid 0
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...rive,2775.html

[DeadEyeDeNNi$]

well,,

I actually took the time to read up a bit on SSD's..... at this link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

It appears that while the SSD 'might" be the wave of the future, the future of SSD's is not here yet...

The writing + rewriting will diminish the drive quite rapidly vs the std HDD available atm, PLUS, if U defrag, along with any other std maintenance of any box and its components, it will wear out in HALF the time or sometimes less.

Soooooooooo, until they have perfected the SSD scenario, my take and advice is,,,STAY THE HELL AWAY from this "trendy" product until it has been perfected beyond fault, at which time I may even use them for my rigs, but DEFINITELY not now and as I understand it not in the next 6 months either...........

Obviously your call, BUT I am trying to give you all a HEADS UP, because I can almost guarantee the SSD of now stats WILL fail and if you want to jump into new technology w/o a multitude of testing, throw away your hard earned money, the by all means be a free beta tester for the new SSD's BUT, please make them your secondary HDD and if you do not, then remember ONE thing when the "shit hits the fan" which wil be

I T O L D Y OU SO


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[mag36]

Those look pretty good Mag, but I run these in Raid 0 and I have had NO probs and run great!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-563-_-Product

Before you say, "But the Samsungs have more storage space" - I run 4 HD's in most boxes and use them for the storage I need while using the Raptors for the OS etc.

Check the search time as it's fast and the 10k walks the dog

I know Raptor drives are faster but i cant see to spent that much for 300gb but these samsungs do a surprising good job at keeping up with the Raptor drives at only 7200 rpms

id rather have a 1 1tb 7200 then 4 300gb 10k drives
10k just isnt much faster, and raid 0 just makes me uncomfortable, one dive and boom

just get a SSD and a HDD

I know thats why i think im going with these saw some pretty impressive specs on Tomshardware

This is average read speeds

[brentidge]

well i have only 2 gigs of ram not going to get more till i upgrade my motherboard becouse mine is only ddr2 and i dont want to buy ram for a few months and it seems to be running fine i usually am playing youtube while i am playing cs s or black ops i no i am a badd ass and your all jelus of my 2 gigs of ddr2