Um... like, hello!

[LunarMist]

For my part, Lunar Mist, I confess to having read and made so many substantive posts in the computers forum (one or another of the 'computers' fora) over the years that I've said pretty much all I have to say in that department, and read most of the things I want to read several times over.

For the most part, Tony, that is what I think too. It seems that computer forums are becoming boring, even more so than the hardware. And there are no Trintons to provide amusement.

 

[DrunkenBastard]

Indeed. Bottoms up! Bombay Sapphire and Indian tonic water all round. Can't be too careful with the SARS about.

 

[DrunkenBastard]

For my part, Lunar Mist, I confess to having read and made so many substantive posts in the computers forum (one or another of the 'computers' fora) over the years that I've said pretty much all I have to say in that department, and read most of the things I want to read several times over.

For the most part, Tony, that is what I think too. It seems that computer forums are becoming boring, even more so than the hardware. And there are no Trintons to provide amusement.

Fear not young Lunar. There is always Picard for quality entertainment :mrgrn:

 

[Mercutio]

I now have a single PC with 800GB of disk space, not counting the two mirrored drives.

And it's... commonplace. Pedestrian. The damn thing doesn't even make noise. It gave me no problems when I was building it (first new machine I've built for myself in easily two years. Mostly I do cascaded upgrades), even with the monstrous overclocking. Hardest thing about about building it was figuring out nice ways to lay 5 IDE and a 50pin SCSI cable in a case such that they didn't obstruct the case fans.

Boring? I daresay so.

 

[LunarMist]

Fear not young Lunar. There is always Picard for quality entertainment :mrgrn:

I have not been called young since the 60s.
Picard is not in the same category. Does he see "electron beams?" :lol:

 

[Mercutio]

What I meant to imply by the last post, for those who don't get it, is that I just built a machine that probably SHOULD have imposed some kind of special challenge to a builder, but didn't. Nine IDE drives, SCSI, overclocking, multiple NICs...
Surely somewhere in there I should've had a recipie for disaster.

Also, I can handle it's fubar. I can even be nice to him. I don't know if I could say the same about Trinton, so no funny ideas, LunarMist.

 

[LunarMist]

Also, I can handle it's fubar. I can even be nice to him. I don't know if I could say the same about Trinton, so no funny ideas, LunarMist.

Truly I do not condone trollish behavior; it's just that individuals have different sensibilities in that area.

I some ways, I miss the forum glory days of 1999-2001. Am I the only one now barely concerned about performance differences between same-generation drives? One can hardly go wrong in upgrading to the latest 15K Cheetah boot drive and buying a Maxtor or WD 7200 RPM data drive (8 MB cache) at a CompUSA sale. If anyone has ideas that would rekindle hard drive enthusiasm, I am all ears.

 

[Pradeep]

I think as CPU speed and RAM capacity has increased so greatly, the hard drive doesn't have as much affect on overall performance as it once did. When people were running low end P2's with 64MB of RAM, then page swapping etc was much more pronounced.

 

[time]

What I meant to imply by the last post, for those who don't get it, is that I just built a machine that probably SHOULD have imposed some kind of special challenge to a builder, but didn't. Nine IDE drives, SCSI, overclocking, multiple NICs...
Surely somewhere in there I should've had a recipie for disaster.

I get it alright. Yes, it's impressive; a huge improvement over even a couple of years ago. Hardware working as expected - no goat sacrifices in sight.

I think that garden-variety mass storage has become fast enough to largely mask the differences in competing devices. Having said that, I'm going to concede that I feel more comfortable with the latest 8MB WD drives than their competitors, performance-wise. When you're talking 3GHz processors or thereabouts, it's nice if the hard drive can put in a decent showing; and I believe I can see a clear difference.

As for SCSI, well - it seems increasingly less relevant. SAS will be nice, but for workstations and PCs I fear the battle was over some time ago.

 

[Mercutio]

Hard to buy IDE drives nowadays when warranty (or rather, the politics associated with having one) ends up being the deciding factor. :|

newegg.com can't keep 80GB Samsung drives in stock, BTW.

 

[Buck]

What I meant to imply by the last post, for those who don't get it, is that I just built a machine that probably SHOULD have imposed some kind of special challenge to a builder, but didn't. Nine IDE drives, SCSI, overclocking, multiple NICs...
Surely somewhere in there I should've had a recipie for disaster.

I get it Mercutio, it just isn't that exciting anymore. The most excitement I get out of computers is when I see the giddiness of my customer's when they receive a new machine.