timwhit
Hairy Aussie
If you can't get by with 60, the next size up is 120GB for $349. Just a hair more expensive than a 15k 300GB SAS drive. Crazy, I know, but better.
I'd still buy the Intel X25-M 80GB, if that's too small go for the 160GB.
If you can't get by with 60, the next size up is 120GB for $349. Just a hair more expensive than a 15k 300GB SAS drive. Crazy, I know, but better.
I'd still buy the Intel X25-M 80GB, if that's too small go for the 160GB.
Or you could buy a 50-pack of X25-M 80GB for $28k. Sweet.
$560 per drive. That's a terrible price. Newegg sells the same drive for $363. They also don't appear to have a limit on the number of drives you can order. Though Newegg only appears to have 26 in stock.
I'll bet you a healthy amount of money that anything you do (besides benchmarking) won't care about SATA1 vs 2.
Current Max is 300MB/s per channel. Depending on what RAID mode you want, you can get good RAID performance off the onboard for RAIDs 0, 1 and 10. I wouldn't bother with any of the stuff between that and the Areca/3Ware level. Once you go there, you can saturate an 8x PCI-E connection (2GB/s). If you were looking for the high-end of the bang/buck scale, I would point you towards this:
Areca ARC-1680IX-16-4G w/4GB Cache (16 Port, 8x PCI-E)
16x OCZ Vertex 250GB SSDs
2x Supermicro M28E1
Stuck into a RAID-0*, it gives you 4TB of 2GB/s, 0.2ms latency storage in 4 full-height drive bays for about $15k. The loudest thing will be the fan on the RAID card.
*Redundancy is too expensive to keep in SSDs, get a pair of 2TB drives to store a near-realtime backup if you don't need massive uptime numbers.
Those in and around Osaka can expect these to land around mid-April for about the cost of a new TV -- seriously.
An interesting SSD article. link
Ok, I take back everything nice I said about this drive. It's an utter and complete pile of crap way slower than any spinning HD. It loads applications fast, but don't try to install anything to it. I will be ordering a new spinning disc to replace it.All I can say is this thing rocks. I haven't used this notebook much since installing it, or tweaked anything for it yet, but it's way faster than the conventional HD that was in here.
Ok, I take back everything nice I said about this drive. It's an utter and complete pile of crap way slower than any spinning HD. It loads applications fast, but don't try to install anything to it. I will be ordering a new spinning disc to replace it.
I have an OCZ Vertex in my HTPC....or get one of the SSDs that doesn't exhibit these problems (OCZ Vertex, Intel).
David: the web edition of 2003 can address 4 gigs of ram?
XP Pro 2 gb?
Server 2003 Web edition is limited to 2GB of RAM. In all other cases, timwhit is correct.
Firmware update for the Vertex makes it even faster.
Just before I left for GDC I got another SSD: SuperTalent’s UltraDrive ME. This is SuperTalent’s Vertex-equivalent, it actually uses the same Indilinx Barefoot controller. As far as I can tell, the drive uses the same firmware as OCZ’s 1275.
Technically that's a soft limitation, not a hard limitation.
Is there an easy way to get around it? A reg hack?
No, I would never install that POS.
How come? I have the web edition on my cheep dell with 2GB RAM and it suits it perfectly. It's quick, small, and does everything I need.
2GB RAM is hardly crippled. I have to be doing some pretty major stuff with VMware and/or running an MMO client to get anyplace close to that, even with my habitual use of of dozens or hundreds of open Firefox tabs.