Ah okay, yeah, Raid 1 is what I've got then. I've got a single 230GB volume mirrored on to 2 identical SCSIs.
So, I'd second your recommendation. ;-) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neven MacEwan Raid 0 is striping (called raid 0 because in fact does not constitute raid at all), Raid 1 is mirroring, I strongly suggest hardware raid 1 in a new pc as insurance against a drive failure, also you need hardware support to boot, These days with humungous cheap disks its easier to just hardware raid 1 and have a single volume IMHO Neven > 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 > > 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
