Is Raid 0 basically mirroring? 'cos that's what I've got on my Dell 2.66GHz dual-core with 3GB of RAM, and it's pretty snappy.
My understanding of the mirroring is that for disk-reads especially it should help quite a lot, since the disk controllers can read half the file from each of the 2 disks, thereby cutting your read times fairly significantly. I don't know if it's actually possible to buy single core CPUs anymore? Compared to when I used to run virtual machines on a single core CPU, duals are essential for anything like that. C. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alister Christie Sent: Monday, 30 March 2009 9:54 a.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List Subject: Re: [DUG-Offtopic] new PC On the subject SATA Raid, my home machine has a couple of drives configured in Raid 0 - and the machine seems really snappy. I would certainly agree that Raid is an excellent way of boosting your machines performance for not much extra overall cost. You may find Raid 0 a bit unreliable (which reminds me - I should do a backup) for a work machine - but you could go for Raid 5 (with 3 or more drives). It somewhat sucks to be buying a new machine at the moment because of the value of the NZ dollar. The CPU I purchased 3 or 4 months ago is actually more expensive now (a 3GHz Core 2 Duo). I guess any recommendation is going to come down to how much (or little) you want to spend. Jeremy Coulter wrote: > HI all. > I am about ready to finally replace me 3GHz HT machine ! Its been a > good old work horse, but its getting on now and needs a complete > rebuild, but I figure I might as well build a new machine. > > What are people using these days? > > I am thinking I might run a thin linux install with VMWare for Vista > and XP. > My reason for this was that I am thinking of putting res. amount of > RAM in, maybe 8GB so my VM's would run res. speedy and thought Linux > and vmware might let me utilise this amount of RAM better. > However, I am also aware that Vista would be able to use this much ram > too so I could still use Vista and VMware for XP. > I would still prodomintaly use XP for development etc rather than > Vista as most of our client have XP and we have sorted out our Vista > issues so I dont need to run it day to day. > > I will use SATA Raid, thats a given, but what about CPUs? > Should I go for a quad core or a dual core? > > I have kinda been out of the hardware side of things for about 1.5 > years now and have not really kept up.....to my shame ;-) _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group Offtopic mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe
