Poll: (4) HD IDE RAID ---or--- x15 Cheetah?

[BowDown]

A man can dream 😉.

 

[Pariah]

A fibre channel cheetah will perform identically to its SCSI counterpart, but cost quite a bit more for the controller. As I said, if you're no big hurry, I'd wait for the next generation X15 which isn't that far off.

 

[BowDown]

Ya, might as well... Do you have any specs on it?

 

[Buddha Bart]

raid0 is for retards.. especially ide raid0

bart

 

[BowDown]

<< raid0 is for retards.. especially ide raid0 >>



Um... Ok. Can you say Nef? I think the Off Topic forum was two doors back on the right. You obviously have no idea what you're talking about.

 

[SolTek]

why dont you just raid up 4 of the new 15,000 rpm ibm's?
now that would be fast

 

[John]

<< raid0 is for retards.. especially ide raid0 >>



Sounds like a &quot;retard&quot; is trying to convince people of that.....

 

[BowDown]

<< why dont you just raid up 4 of the new 15,000 rpm ibm's? >>



Hehe... Let me see:

(4) $550 = $1200 + $350 for a RAID Controller 🙂

That &quot;would&quot; kick ass... but I think I would rather buy a nice 6-String Bass instead. 🙂

 

[Radboy]

Depends what u wanna do with the drives.

If u wanna shuttle large files, like video, audio, or fatty Photshop images, the RAID-0 array would work wonderfully .. especially if *reliability* isn't very important. But if u want something to run your OS, apps &amp; swap/page file .. something where a low seek/access time provides max advanatge .. that's where the X15 would shine .. especially if reliability is important .. cuz SCSI drives are more reliable than IDE .. and a single IDE drive is more reliable than a RAID-0 array .. which has no (zero) fault tolerance. One drive dies = you lose everything on the stripe/array.

 

[Dug]

Pariah-

&quot;There's definitely something wrong if your SCSI setup is taking an additional 25 seconds to boot. I have 2 HD's and a cdrom drive hooked up to my SCSI card it the initialization process took less time than the onboard RAID controller on my ABIT. If you're not willing to take the time to optimize your setup and make sure your configuration is properly set up before you got rid of it, you never should have bought it in the first place.&quot;

Actually I did spend the time to set it up properly. This is what I'm looking at. The time it takes to see your motherboard bios screen to seeing Windows took 25 seconds with the scsi set up (Tekram). With IDE raid (Promise) on an Asus A7V133 it takes about 7 to 9 seconds. On my old CUSL2 with a Highpoint controller it took 15 seconds. I've seen many a scsi set up take 20 or more seconds to boot up. So there was nothing wrong with my setup.

As far as hd space. I didn't really need a bigger hd. I can store all of my stuff on CDR. I was just trying to make a point about space per dollar and what happens when you run out.

To clarify, there was nothing wrong with the X15, it's fast and the only solution for some depending on what you use your computer for. It just wasn't worth the $650 to shave off a second in loading a game. I see a much better performance boost with processors and ram.