Yeah, but if it was in a browser, then each browser designer would impliment it differently...
Mozilla would give an answer that was beautifully rendered, and may even be right. IE would give the 'commonly accepted answer' whether it was correct or not Firebird would give an answer that was lighter than mozilla. Lynx would just give you the right answer, as long as there wasn't any javascript.
My favourite google calculator phrase so far has to be.
"speed of light in furlongs per fortnight" (approx 1.8 x 10^12 ) although it didn't know chains per month...
I think the double read speed is going to depend on the implimentation of the RAID controller (I'm still not sure how good these low cost ata-raid controllers are - having spent most of my working life with enterprise class SCSI systems)
Thanks for reminding me about potential double read speed - I'll be benchmarking that to check out the controller.
As I said - the main reason I chose RAID 1 is I used to have a SCSI U2W card in the machine, and used SCSI 10k drives, I've lost 3 of them (from a variety of manufacturers) - even when being careful with cooling and so on, so, when I can effectively replace 1 SCSI drive with 2 SATA drives in a mirror for a similar price, and still have more storage than the allegedly more reliable SCSI drives. If these go well, then I definately think I'll be getting another SATA RAID controller, and just keep adding pairs of drives.
I put a pair of barracuda Vs in my rebuilt (WinXP) PC this weekend, as I was rebuilding anyway, and managed to get hold of a couple. I mainly use my PC for audio recording and editing.
Currently I have them in a RAID 1 conf as a mirrored data volume on an ASUS A7NX Delux & AthlonXP 2700+ (I do a lot of AV work for my band, and have had a few disks go down in the past 3 years, so I'm sacrificing the potential performance boost of RAID 0 for the piece of mind - I have plently of space anyhow.
First thoughts - well installation was easy, cable routing and tidying was MUCH easier - the only niggle being the power adapters adding another point of connector failure and more length to already long power cables. This has also allowed me to put my PATA DVD rom and DVD -R drive on seperate IDE channels.
So far, I haven't run any real benchmarks, apart from 'Well it all feels just as responsive as with PATA 133 drives':) - I'm not expecting a massive performance increase, as the controller on the motherboard is a bridge to the existing ATA133 Controller IIRC, so although the drives may be communicating at 150, there's a bottleneck there, and anyway.
Well, I left it doing a 24 hour set of video renders last night (partially as a burn-in test, partially because they needed doing) so I should see later if any major problems have shown up.
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This is what happens if you leave your phone in Airplane Mode...
The most WTF language is "Anything they don't use" ;-)
Yeah, but if it was in a browser, then each browser designer would impliment it differently...
Mozilla would give an answer that was beautifully rendered, and may even be right.
IE would give the 'commonly accepted answer' whether it was correct or not
Firebird would give an answer that was lighter than mozilla.
Lynx would just give you the right answer, as long as there wasn't any javascript.
My favourite google calculator phrase so far has to be.
"speed of light in furlongs per fortnight" (approx 1.8 x 10^12 )
although it didn't know chains per month...
forty rods to the hogshead
:)
Is that all??? I think you need your engine tuning a bit or you'll be stopping for petrol every few yards...
I think the double read speed is going to depend on the implimentation of the RAID controller (I'm still not sure how good these low cost ata-raid controllers are - having spent most of my working life with enterprise class SCSI systems)
Thanks for reminding me about potential double read speed - I'll be benchmarking that to check out the controller.
As I said - the main reason I chose RAID 1 is I used to have a SCSI U2W card in the machine, and used SCSI 10k drives, I've lost 3 of them (from a variety of manufacturers) - even when being careful with cooling and so on, so, when I can effectively replace 1 SCSI drive with 2 SATA drives in a mirror for a similar price, and still have more storage than the allegedly more reliable SCSI drives. If these go well, then I definately think I'll be getting another SATA RAID controller, and just keep adding pairs of drives.
So.. another convert from SCSI...
Had the system on for 48 hours now doing video renders - not a glitch.
Those baracudas run extreemley hot, but they have been very quiet.
Yes...
:) - I'm not expecting a massive performance increase, as the controller on the motherboard is a bridge to the existing ATA133 Controller IIRC, so although the drives may be communicating at 150, there's a bottleneck there, and anyway.
I put a pair of barracuda Vs in my rebuilt (WinXP) PC this weekend, as I was rebuilding anyway, and managed to get hold of a couple. I mainly use my PC for audio recording and editing.
Currently I have them in a RAID 1 conf as a mirrored data volume on an ASUS A7NX Delux & AthlonXP 2700+ (I do a lot of AV work for my band, and have had a few disks go down in the past 3 years, so I'm sacrificing the potential performance boost of RAID 0 for the piece of mind - I have plently of space anyhow.
First thoughts - well installation was easy, cable routing and tidying was MUCH easier - the only niggle being the power adapters adding another point of connector failure and more length to already long power cables. This has also allowed me to put my PATA DVD rom and DVD -R drive on seperate IDE channels.
So far, I haven't run any real benchmarks, apart from 'Well it all feels just as responsive as with PATA 133 drives'
Well, I left it doing a 24 hour set of video renders last night (partially as a burn-in test, partially because they needed doing) so I should see later if any major problems have shown up.
I thought I already told you about that... :)
Looked fine to me...
:)
there again I was looking at the screenshot with IE.. perhaps it translated it back in an M$ pre-emptive counterstrike
Oh, very Drool. :)