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Sam: we have been on the net for what, 13 years now? Please remember, I have done exactly what you are talking about, and, I'm the one that is an access time advocate. Remember all those battles I had with Eugene??? Anyway, here's my take. The 9000 was so slow in data transfer, that it...

I bought 3 commodity boxes, two macs, one Dell, 3 mac laptops, and, the reason was every time I wanted to do something, the hardware, usually a key component, requiring entire unit replacement, wasn't up to the task. I haven't had that problem with any of the three computers built with custom...

That's the same logic I use for buying enterprise motherboards....

Zovirax? Aides spinoff drugs that surpress herpes...

"Even 10 years ago, you could have purchased a $200 SCSI contoller and moved it from $100 motherboard to $100 motherboard and had a series of systems that were cheaper and faster than what you bought. Over time that 10 year old board has brought about a high opportunity cost, since you've been...

theSwede. OK. My SATA card does about 150 mb/sec. The Vertex Turbo is supposed to do 255 mb/sec. So, that is a huge loss in speed. The problem with PCI-X is finding a controller card that will handle 255 MB/sec, at least, per channel. None that work on PCI-X slots I can find will do that, yet...

It's the big five, add Cheetah and hyena for the stories sake.

Time: I found for the money, a 120 MHZ 1080p with a 10 bit screen makes a big difference. This is pretty much the VXT series from Vizio, or, the Sony's use 10 bit on their 120 MHZ or more models. I just watched Super Seven, about the africian animals that that phrase describes, and, it was...

NOT IF YOU'VE GOT A BRAIN, A COMPUTER, AND YOU SHOP.

I'm so sorry. The issue on the table is raid 0, 2 Vertex turbos, and what card can handle that, or 3 or 4 drives. Seems the best one right now is the 9550SXU. I'll let you know in a bit if I just bought a card for ebay, or, if it really is 200% faster then the 9000.

Please, I'm all ears....what the F...does that mean????

Enterprise is subject to careful shopping, as is commodity. I paid 500 for a Supermicro motherboard. 300 dollar board, plus SCSI onboard, same as a commodity mobo, with a SCSI raid card? No, the commodity was 300 plus 300 for the SCSI card. Advantage enterprise. Xeon 2.8 GHZ about 250 dollars...

I'm kind of curious about this comment. If you take a home office deduction, which I do, isn't the more money you spend on your home office computer money that will reduce your tax burden, yet give you something to work on you really enjoy? IIRC, my system was depreciated over 5 years. I'm not...

NEVER plan on getting my money back from those scams. NEVER buy unless I'm happy with the price at purchase.

30 gigs is just a bit small for my OS, and programs. That was my main interest in getting two, and, finding a SATA 3 card that gets close to 300 mb/sec seems to be more difficult then one would think, in PCI-X.

To go a bit further, the onboard chipsets and raid controllers need to be up to the task as well. One of the issues I have noticed is with the same drives on the two other machines I have, the user experience just isn't as fast on the Gigabyte 120 dollar or so motherboards, vs. the Supermicro...

Why? No sata 6 currently for onboard raid. SSD's need that. When I can max out the PCI-X 133 MHZ/64 bit slot, with a RAID 0, using a 9550USX, and 2-4 Vertex Turbos, I'll get back to you on if I really need a new system for anything I do...

David: Thank you for the input. My life kind of seems weird, but, sometimes I have a bunch of money, most of the time very little. The first upgrade was done in a good time, and, it worked well. System has worked fine, lasted nearly 10 years, and, seems to be just fine for what I do with it...

It's real clear with mine that the processors are capable of handling pretty much everything I throw at them, but, despite the SCSI, I still have a huge amount of room to transfer data more quickly. The 4 port card, if it is 200% faster, should give me at least 300 MB/sec, and, hopefully...

I decided to go with a 9550SXU, and wait for SATA 6 motherboards, before I do the full monty. The two to 4 vertex turbos should come in around 300-500 mb/sec, on that controller, I hope. That should be enough to hold me over until SATA 6 is pretty common. My goal is to have a boot array with...

OK. My perception is based on using the Raid 0 Vertex Turbo setup, on the 9500S. The writes are SO slow, and reads aren't that great, that in the functions that I have done with that setup, they just don't seem THAT much faster then the scsi setup. The writes are 20 MB/sec, that's about 1/5th...

Hi David I tried that, didn't work. It may have a bit to do with the bios settings limiting agp memory to 256 mb, with the default setting at 32 mb, when the card has one gig... More after testing...

I talked to a guy at Supermicro, and, they had a couple boards with advanced features and PCI-X, but, none with SATA 6 yet. Despite the current thought, leaving totally behind stuff that isn't really that bad, like SAS/SCSI 320, doesn't seem like a wise thing to do, since much of that hardware...

Real problem is finding a PCI-X raid card that has channels fast enough to even make it worth raiding the SSDs. Apparentlty the 9550SXU is 200% faster or more, then my 9500. Since the 9500 does 62 mb/sec, that should mean around 190 mb/sec per channel. Problem is, they are 300 dollars, and...

You all have taught me well. Latest firmware, latest, now upgraded to Ultra DVD 9. I've got Media Player classic HT, and VLC for regular DVD's, and, if Ultra won't play them, the others will. Also reinstalled the drivers for the 4670 from HIS website, trying Mercs' drivers only, then adding...

Somethings are rather odd. Sahara had lines through it, artifacts, and wouldn't play, period. Spidey 3 and National Treasure where incredible in DVD Ultra 9. Trying to play Wanted, nothing, didn't even really startup.

ATI AGP cards tend to use legacy drivers. I have the latest version of the legacy drivers, and, the drivers recommended by HIS. It appears to be a PowerDVD forced upgrade, since moving to PowerDVD 9 Ultra the setup works, and incredibly well. Just feel kind of used after buying the drive and...

I kind of figured that. 8 x 60 equals the tests I saw on review. Looks like that's the limit per channel. So, LSI makes a 4 port PCI-X 133 MHZ 64 bit SAS card. Wonder if that would work? Around 150 dollars...

Well, let's see if the 3 Ware driver for the 9550S 3.00.04.070 driver is any faster then the 2005 driver I was using... HDTach results: still stuck at 61.4 mb/sec... so the answer is no...

XP 8.65-0908131-087120E-ATI was the one that didn't work...

Anyone actually used one, tested it, and had good numbers using SSDS?

After lots of playing, it's the 9500S that's the problem. With a single drive, it's max is 63 mb/sec per channel. On the 3112 I'm getting around 124-126 MB/sec writes, and, 133-138 MB/sec reads. Kind of weird, since the slot it's in shouldn't be that fast. The debate now is to try and boot...

I just booted off the old OS that works with blueray. Driver date is 8/13/09 Driver version is 8.650.0. Don't know what the one installed on the raid that didn't work is, since I just pulled the raid array apart to test the drives on different controllers, in different slots...

Currently the 3 ware card shows up as a 9000 series. I also have the MegaRaid card 320-1 and the Silicon IMmage SIT 3112 Alink controller. The 3112 is highly unlikely to go over 120 mb/sec.

Hi Strange stuff here. On my prior install of XP PRO, I used a HIS 4670 video card. http://www.hisdigital.com/un/product2-448.shtml The drivers support HDMI, and, it will in fact output to the TV's rather cheezy speakers through that HDMI connection. I'm using a HDMI cable to connect the TV...

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/E7505/X5DA8.cf PCI Expansion • 1x 64-bit 133/100/66MHz PCI-X (3.3V) slot • 2x 64-bit 100/66MHz PCI-X (3.3V) slots • 2x 32-bit 33MHz PCI-X (5V) slots I've got the 9500S in the 64 bit slot, but, it still isn't very fast. The other slots...

I wanted a decent size boot drive, that's why I raided the two, and, I figured they would be faster, and, at a good price point.That hasn't changed. I probably made a mistake not enabling 'write through' or write enabling... I'm sure it would have increased write speeds. One of the cards is...

ATTO on the SCSI raid is Writes between 130 mb/sec and 100 mb/sec. Reads 130 to 133 mb/sec. SSD's are running 15 mb/sec to 20 mb/sec writes, and, 98 to 120 mb/sec Reads. HDtach is running SSD's at 60-105 mb/sec, Random Access 0.1 ms. SCSI 80-120 mb/sec, with 6.0 ms. The write speed is REALLY...

There is no onboard SATA controller. SCSI based system. The drives are too small to boot from off the other SATA card on the machine. Thought of putting one in the other HTPC, but, it's again, really too small to boot from. Guess I could use them on that machine, with the Raid setup, provided it...

So far, not all that impressed. Pretty snappy, but STR are slow: 100 mb/sec. Probably the controller. Stuff opens quickly, but boot time is a little longer. Writes are terrible.

I've been getting 150 mb/sec for about 3 years now, thanks to two Seagate 15k cheetahs,,IIRC. I found the two drives to be the fastest access wise, and through put wise, perception wise. In other words, 4 drives had faster throughput, but, what felt like hesitation compared to two. Two of the...

Currently my Raid 0 throughput is 150 mb/sec or so. I'd like something that is a noticeable increase. Two drives are a bit smaller then I would like, but, doable. I'm going to try that first.

David: is there much difference between two and three of those drives in raid 0 to humans, not benchmarks? Or is it at a point of diminishing returns?

Is this worth it? I'm seriously considering two of the Vertex Turbo's http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227468 Price seems REAL good? Comments, suggestions?

How, and with phone and program?

Hi I was wondering what folks are using for Contacts or an address book? I am thinking using google gmail contacts list as an address book, so if I have a backup of my address book. Any other solutions you are using, and why? Thanks Gs Happy New Year

Did a clean install of XP and the problem went away.

Panasonics' Bluray player was about 190 bucks at Costco. I thought the Plextor would give me a full, functional copy of PowerDVD 8, which it didn't but, it does play Bluray, for 150 bucks, and the burner should work as well, and perhaps the burner software will work better then the PowerDVD...

Continuing saga of the TV. I want to try this with Bluray quality signals, so, I picked up a Plextor PX-B310u external Bluray player, about 150 dollars, total. It comes with burning software, and PowerDVD 8, my main software interest. Figured I would get a full copy of DVD 8 for that price...

Went back to Nero 6. No video player. Using Media player classic home cinema, and VLC>