[ILUG] Speccing a new PC

[Mark Dennehy]

Actually, just had it pointed out that you're doing a desktop build,
sorry, got confused :D
If you're doing a desktop, don't get an SSD.
Get several and plug them into an offboard RAID controller :D
(And you'll probably need that offboard controller, most motherboard
RAID controllers these days were designed for the lower HDD bandwidths
and you need a bit more oomph to cope with the higher data transfer
rates that SSDs can manage).
Built an i5 box using an SSD a while back with software RAID0; it ran
bloody fast, but a proper hardware RAID would have screamed along.

Quietly screamed, you understand - you couldn't tell the box was on if
it wasn't for the LED on the front, even when the box was sitting next
to your head at 0400 in a silent office.

On 16 September 2010 14:28, Mark Dennehy <mark.dennehy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just generally a good idea for a laptop. More physically robust,
> speeds up the entire system quite dramatically, reduces noise
> enormously and so on. Cost is the only real drawback, but so long as
> you don't go over 128Gb, it's not fantastically horrible. MemoryC were
> doing them for the 250-300 range last I looked.
>
> On 16 September 2010 14:26, Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin at ul.ie> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 16 2010, Mark Dennehy wrote:
>>
>>> And think about an SSD as well :D
>>
>> Is there a particular 64-bit-related reason, or is that just generally a
>> good idea?
>>
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