Hi everyone, I'm going to buy a new PC for number crunching. I'm happily using Gentoo on my current PC and I'd like to do it on the new one. Short description:
Dell Dimension 8300 Intel 875E chipset P4 3.0 w/Hyperthreading (maybe 3.2) 120 GB SATA HD 2GB 400MHz DDR SDRAM Blah blah blah I'm using codes with loads of sequential I/O from/to disk. Is Serial ATA a good choice? Does anyone have any experience with it? I'm experiencing a rough 35MB/s of sequential read speed with my current ATA133 HD. Will I see a visible gain in performance? SCSI disks are too expensive for my budget, so they're not an option. More: is serial ATA supported by Gentoo LiveCDs or do I have to do dirty work to have it running under Linux? I'm sorry for these dumb questions, but I'm quite in a hurry and I would be glad to hear someone saying: 'I've got it. It rocks.' ;-) Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
