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MDV

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Re: Anyone know much about the new Intel i7s?
« Reply #45 on: November 25, 2008, 05:11:40 PM »
How relaible are they? I'll be raiding them after all.
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Re: Anyone know much about the new Intel i7s?
« Reply #46 on: November 26, 2008, 06:30:32 AM »
Quote from: MDV on November 25, 2008, 05:11:40 PM
How relaible are they? I'll be raiding them after all.

Spinpoints or SCSI?

SCSI is the main HD tech in servers, most servers use PERC cards to run their HD's. PERC is a beefed up SCSI card that has it's own power supply backup and all sorts of other gee wizz stuff that I know nothing about. But they do kick ass.

I've heard good things of Spinpoint, but I don't know how reliable they are. I've been using Seagate Barracuda's for my last few HD's.
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Re: Anyone know much about the new Intel i7s?
« Reply #47 on: November 26, 2008, 07:53:57 AM »
Quote from: MDV on November 25, 2008, 05:11:40 PM
How relaible are they? I'll be raiding them after all.

Well, I've never heard any horror stories to do with them, so I assume they're as reliable as the next hard drive from a reputable make.
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MDV

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Re: Anyone know much about the new Intel i7s?
« Reply #48 on: November 26, 2008, 07:58:31 AM »
Ok, thanks (yes, I meant spinpoints)
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Re: Anyone know much about the new Intel i7s?
« Reply #49 on: December 18, 2008, 02:15:14 PM »
Thought I would let you know that Mesh are extremely late arriving.
Mine was due about 10 days ago, I rang them up yesterday (for the second time). Was about to to start educating them on how slack they were, and he hung up... (I had been polite and hadn't even starting having a go and the like)
Either way, it arrived this morning via DHL before 10AM.

Just a heads up for their business ethics, customer care attitude etc.
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Re: Anyone know much about the new Intel i7s?
« Reply #50 on: December 18, 2008, 03:40:59 PM »
just thought I'd add to the thread that raiding drives doesn't improve the seek time so for gaming and windows load speed it doesn't do anything (at least from the benchmarks I saw ages ago anyway)

my raid 0 array died when I returned from a festival which put me off it forever, but I think someone using my PC broke it some how because it wasn't that old at the time

MDV how many sticks of ram are you using current? I've heard of problems with motherboards struggling with 4 sticks, which is the main thing putting me off using 8Gb of ram in the current upgrade I have planned (not that 8Gb makes a difference over 4GB I was just thinking of future proofing since DDR2 PC800 RAM is so cheap)

if you spend £1700 on a computer then you have too much money, my upgrade will cost about £1000 but my hardware is over 5 years old
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