The drives look cool. They're small. They're ugly, yet streamlined. They're slow as hell. The damn things have an average sustained transfer rate of 8MB/sec. My IDE drives go faster than that! I really hope nobody gets suckered into buying these things. Don't the USB HDs on the market now, go faster?
While it is true most of the big corporations are still using *nix equipment for "mission critical" data applications, many are in the process of making the switch over to NT. I think it mostly comes from the top floor execs. They know how 95/98 works and they see that NT looks the same. But, as I'm sure many of you know, it's quite a different beast.
Contrary to popular belief, it is NT stable though. I read a few of the previous posts, and noticed how it was mentioned quite a few times that NT really needs to be tweaked to get the best performance out of it. Isn't this true of any OS? You all know, no matter what distribution, Linux is not an "out of the box" solution, neither is Solaris, MacOS, OpenStep, etc. As for supporting NT, yeah, I agree it's a pain in the ass to support people who don't know how to use the damn OS. But again, like for your favorite flavor of unix, it's also a pain. That's why there's an Admin account on these OS'. Users shouldn't be able to tweak their sytems to death. Giving some schmoe a root account on their Sun machine is like giving a torque wrench and a Porsche to a monkey. They're bound to destroy it.
I recall seeing a machine that was running dual, dual processor motherboards about 2 years ago when the Slot 1s came out. I never saw anything like it ever again, but I believe it was using SuperMicro boards. You're probably SOL at this point though.
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The drives look cool. They're small. They're ugly, yet streamlined. They're slow as hell. The damn things have an average sustained transfer rate of 8MB/sec. My IDE drives go faster than that! I really hope nobody gets suckered into buying these things. Don't the USB HDs on the market now, go faster?
While it is true most of the big corporations are still using *nix equipment for "mission critical" data applications, many are in the process of making the switch over to NT. I think it mostly comes from the top floor execs. They know how 95/98 works and they see that NT looks the same. But, as I'm sure many of you know, it's quite a different beast.
Contrary to popular belief, it is NT stable though. I read a few of the previous posts, and noticed how it was mentioned quite a few times that NT really needs to be tweaked to get the best performance out of it. Isn't this true of any OS? You all know, no matter what distribution, Linux is not an "out of the box" solution, neither is Solaris, MacOS, OpenStep, etc. As for supporting NT, yeah, I agree it's a pain in the ass to support people who don't know how to use the damn OS. But again, like for your favorite flavor of unix, it's also a pain. That's why there's an Admin account on these OS'. Users shouldn't be able to tweak their sytems to death. Giving some schmoe a root account on their Sun machine is like giving a torque wrench and a Porsche to a monkey. They're bound to destroy it.
I recall seeing a machine that was running dual, dual processor motherboards about 2 years ago when the Slot 1s came out. I never saw anything like it ever again, but I believe it was using SuperMicro boards. You're probably SOL at this point though.