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Tuesday, 18 January 2005

From the I-will-soon-suck-less-than-you dept...

...or at least my new computer will suck less than yours...

Coming in February 2005:

-Antec PLUS1080AMG Metallic Gray SOHO file server case
-ASUS A8N-E Premium Nforce4 Ultra x16 pcie and three x1 pcie slots. (actually still undecided on mb)
-AMD Athlon64 3500+ - 939 socket - 90nm/Winchester core.
-1GB Crucial DDR400/PC3200 ram
-PNY GeForce 6600GT 128MB dual DVI video card

Planned for December 2005:
-U320 scsi card - pcie (AFAIK such a beast does not yet exist...minor point)
-80GB U320 10K rpm scsi drive


From Feb-December I'll have to make due with my 60GB ATA133 IDE drive :/

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EDIT:
sCRAP the U320 scsi plan. SCSI is out. SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) is in. This is cool stuff-- the controllers will be cross compatible with SAS and SATA drives.
See Adaptec's website for more on SAS.

Revised plan for December 2005:
-PCI Express SAS/SATA controller
-80GB 15K rpm SAS drive (but possibly 10Krpm due to noise concerns...)

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  1. Neal says:
    #1 2005-01-31 13:49 (Reply)

    The computer is in the basement..what do you care about noise...actually, I wouldn't get a 15k drive...the noise would be annoying as hell--unless you can insulate it somehow....

  2. ra says:
    #2 2005-02-03 19:24 (Reply)

    Because I have to in the basement with it! It was different at the apartment when I had the computer in the closet. That was an awesome setup, I miss it.

    I'm actually wondering whether I'll be able to get SAS at all... I really want it, but that class of controllers is usually engineered for server boards, so for all I know it might take an x8 pcie slot which I wont have. We'll see.


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