IT guy here is incompetent

[acemcmac]

So is he with the national park service or the USGS???????

 

[Captante]

First if the PC's using 4gb's of RAM are running 32 bit versions of XP they can't make use of anything beyond 3gb's as far as I know because of OS limitations. Second running the laptop while using a CRT in a docking station won't make a bit of difference heat-wise.(however it will add life to the LCD on the laptop) Third, SCSI is a waste of money in non-server applications based on every credible benchmark I've seen in the last couple years which show it being significantly out-performed by ATA-100/133 & especially SATA in applications where the HD's switch back & forth from reads to writes frequently. (Large sequential reads are a very different story)

 

[Cruisin1]

So um... tell him to drop me a line if he needs to buy some higher end servers 😉

 

[randay]

Doesn't sound incompetent to me.

 

[Savij]

Originally posted by: Captante
First if the PC's using 4gb's of RAM are running 32 bit versions of XP they can't make use of anything beyond 3gb's as far as I know because of OS limitations. Second running the laptop while using a CRT in a docking station won't make a bit of difference heat-wise.(however it will add life to the LCD on the laptop) Third, SCSI is a waste of money in non-server applications based on every credible benchmark I've seen in the last couple years which show it being significantly out-performed by ATA-100/133 & especially SATA in applications where the HD's switch back & forth from reads to writes frequently. (Large sequential reads are a very different story)

I thought 2^32 was 4 GB?