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I didn't intend to mention the motherboard because I knew someone
would ask me which I used. I'm not the super high tech guy on the
planet with all the answers. I'm the lazy guy that wants it to work
really well for a really long time. My old machine ran for over five
years 24/7. It went in the trash this morning. It was a Dell and I
kind of went along the same path by using an Intel motherboard D925XCV
and a Intel P4 3.4 Ghz extreme HT chip and added one of those huge quiet
fans on it. It is not the most state of the art or largest boards but
I don't need all that. It has zillions of USB ports and several
firewire plugs and I do need them for video stuff. I was reading Pop
Sci or some such this morning and there was a Dell just like mine for
$4,600. I got all my junk from Tigerdirect for just over $1,000. I
am going to add another gig of DDR2 as I wasn't sure if I needed 2
gig. I do and the DDR2 is designed to work with pairs I guess.
If I need drive speed, and I will not, then I would add more drives
and use RAID. I don't need off site storage because I work at home
and don't have off site storage except maybe my car.
Ok so color me wimp on the MB but so far I love it. Oh there are
something like 9 fans in this thing. Blue neon fans at both ends
of the power supply and one side of the case is clear plex.
Yep my next life is as a game player.
Oh those 250 gig serial drives only cost just over $100 from
that TigerDirect outfit. Maybe $110 or $120.
Jimmy
I'd certainly second everything Jimmy says. I longer use hot swap
technology, I'm no longer convinced by the benefits of SCSI when compared
with the cheapness and high capacity of SATA(RAID). Have a browse thru
http://www.promise.com/product/product_guide/productguide.htm
I've used a number of their card/on-board products and have been very
satisfied.
Jimmy, which motherboard did you decide on?
DJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy Snowden" <jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Code 2" <code2@xxxxxxx>; "Omega-List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: OT - backup storage devices
> I don't use a removable drive, I just know I probably should, but I
> use two serial ATA drives. They are faster than IDE and some boards
> and drives are hot swapable. I think mine are but I don't care as I
> don't take them out. Actually I don't have a serial card anymore I
> have four ports on the new motherboard I have now. I had to upgrade
> as I am doing lots of video work. Video is the only thing I have seen
> that is more intensive than TS2ki on a poor computer. I've used
> regular SCSI drives and they are even faster but I don't remember if
> they are hot swappable. My old board had a port on the outside of the
> machine so it would really be easy to have an external SCSI drive.
> If you are backup up more than a few gig then hard drives are about it
> as right now I think.
>
> Jimmy
>
>
> I've been using a removable, internal hard disk for backing up and
> archiving. I'm looking to upgrade and wanted to see what technologies
> you guys are using.
>
> The benefit of a removable internal drive is that it's nearly twice as
> fast as USB 2.0 and Firewire. It connects directly to the IDE
> controller so reported throughput is more than 1 GB/minute (though in
> practice it's more like 200-400 MB/minute because of file handling.
> The downside is it's not hot-swappable.
>
> With archiving, I need capacity so the neat little USB micro drives
> aren't really an option.
>
> So, I guess my priorities are portability for off-site storage,
> capacity and speed. Any suggestions?
>
> --
> Thailand: an ad for donkey rides asked Would you like to ride on your own
ass?.
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