so you're going to abandon ME then? gone wireless yet?

wait a bit for PCI-Xpress and DDDR then get yerself a couple of 120gb SATAs and a nice intel chipset 800FSB mobo and build a lurvly fast array, like wot I'm doing. £72 notes for 120gb SATA? I'll have some of that thank you very much.

as you know, I'm using Seagates in me server (4 of them) and they are VERY quiet and very fast, in terms of everyday performance they're running almost as fast as me scsi drives, but they are banked in RAID5 and heavily Diskeepered for max data throughput, important as the server is the main storage for almost everything - keeps everyones HDDs nice and clean and tidy

lol - i hate to be smug, but will be picking up a 120gig sata for only 50notes as well . The sata isn't WD though, its a maxtor.

Edited by - Chips on 3/31/2004 12:50:47 PM

aw no Chips, not Maxtor, i'm chucking em away by the barrow load. Seriously chum just say no, get a WD or Seagate or Hitachi, not a Maxtor. You can thank me later.

Wasn''t Maxtor formally one of the most respectable of HD makers? What happened to them in the last few years? I'm hoping that I don't need to buy a new HD for the next 4-5 years. Hopefully by then they'll have 14k RPM or greater!

Sir S

they WERE good but always had poor em shielding (you could trash one with a mobile phone) Still fast drives but very unreliable and they get very, very hot. Cheap components and poor build quality, they all go through it. Seagate were crap now they're good again. WD are always good, IBM go up and down, etc etc., you get the picture...

Hi Taw,

No. No wireless. It has been pointed out to me by she who must be obeyed that I am expected to spend some MORE money on the little one's room first. After that, I have to decide whether to upgrade systems AND go wireless or lay out some nice Cat 6 cables.... hate the thought of doing manual labor but....

....I get ahead of myself.

Yes. I am going to be changing OSes by the end of the year. Whether it is XP Pro 32-bit or a fully debugged 64-bit port is open to question. Most likely, I'll have to go with a 32-bit as I still don't see myself moving to over to Athlon... tempting as it is. (BTW it looks like you can save ooodles of dough by sticking with the clock-locked Athlong 64s instead of shelling out almost twice the money for an overclockable FX. So I AM tempted. I don't play any legacy 16 bit games. Tossed out the last of them last Fall.)

Also, am going to have to do a full system replace. I run a Dell desktop right now (in case you forgot after you hit your head on the floor the last time you fell over laughing).

That's the real hang-up really. I want something new as I'm getting tired of this old 423pin 2.0gHz P4 (actually I think it is 1.9gHz)but I really cannot complain all that much about its reliability and durability.

An alternative to tide me over until 64-bit becomes reliable and real, I'm also looking into a processor upgrade but I don't know if it is worth the money. Not very clear on whether a socket 423 to 478 adapter is all that effective. Have any ideas? I've got 512Mb of RDRAM (PC800) so I might get another half gig to bulk it up but i don't see that it would really be used by the apps I have. Maybe setup a little ramdrive. Don't know.

Fight Like Warlord

fook ramdrives. use TweakXp and set for core system performance, then diskeeper the hdd MFT and it'll go like sh*t off a hot shovel.

Taw and I are in agreement (once again ); 10,000 RPM HDDs are fine, as PCI-Express will allow the MB and RAM to more fully utilise the speed of the HDD, as well as help to eliminate bottlernecks which are, of course, still present in modern systems. Of course, acquiring a PCI-Express MB will probably be expensive, but will be worth it considering the performance gains, and the fact that all of ATIs and nV's new graphics cards will be PCI-Express. I also must state that, while I have had no poiblems with Maxtor, WD are still make the best HDDs in my opinion.

I've always sworn by WDC, but the expense occassionally puts me off. Seagates are my alternative for IDE, but for SCSI I go Seagate first, although my own are Fujitsu (for now)

They actually got the 10,000 rpm's down in price? Last I had heard, the were going for around $1000 in the US. It would be nice if they do come down.

Michael "Finalday"
In Memory Of WLB

Final - Whatchoo talkin' 'bout? WD 74GB 10,000 RPM SATA HDDs are $348 AUD.

Fd,

Depends on the size. You can get a 36Gig WD Raptor for about 125 semolians. If you Raid0 two of them, you'd have a pretty snazzy 72Gig drive.