Thanks
for
all the help
Went
in
the end for a mixture of www.overclockers.co.uk
Motherboard
cpu memory and case hd
And
http://www.scan.co.uk/
DVD/cd-rw
HD/XP
Bought
enough to make one new PC and upgrade
another
Before
buying & setting up the
main
server
I’ll
let
you know how I get on
Mike
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-----Original
Message-----
From: Phil Harris
[mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wed 10 Oct 01 17:36
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] New PC
Build
(slightly OT)
I'm
using the 100Gb Maxtor drive and although you're right about it being a
5,400
rpm drive I would suggest buying two and striping data across them ... the
data
rate (sustained) to and from the drive is high enough anyway but a pair (or
even 4) striped will give you a lot of extra bandwidth to be
safe.
As I
said earlier I like the 5,400 rpm drives as they run cool - 7,200rpm drives
run
pretty hot and that can't be good for them - the higher spindle speed also
seems more likely to induce resonances in the PC case!
I
plan
to buy another three so I can use four configured as a striped array
giving about 372Mb as a single drive when I get back to
work.
Phil
Anybody recommend a decent 100GB (ish) hard disk? Was going to
get
the Maxtor at Scan, but its only 5400rpm..... I'm planning to use it
for
games and PVR stuff with probably ShowShifter
ATI All in Wonder Radeon - looking for compromise between
gameplay
and PVR-ness...... unless anyone can suggest something better.....?
(someone
suggested possibly getting a Geforce 3 and having a seperate PCI tv in/out
etc
card - I'll be recording from sky digital so svideo in and out with no
ariel
should work.......????)
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