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Re: nerdo poll: ATi vs nVida

Tue, 09 March 2004 22:22

Apollo wrote on Tue, 09 March 2004 23:24

... Yea, no denying the SCSI has the I/O, but it does have the cost as you know. Wink

I still don't think the SATA is too bad considering what I paid for it. Smile

But what about the 10k raptors? Those are supposed to be nice.

Yeah, the price definately doesn't match the performance difference, but when you grew up with SCSIs, you just can't go back. I tried it once and just hated it. So for my own sanity, my main box is SCSI-only.
Actually, I have 5 boxes working and only two of them are IDE... Smile

Apollo wrote on Tue, 09 March 2004 23:24

Have you also seen lately they are moving to SFF servers? I forget which manufacturer it was now off the top of my head, but they are making servers with huge capacity 15k rpm 2.5" drives. Yea, laptop drives. I always knew that would be the next "evolution", (that we'd all be moving to 2.5" drives), but it's pretty cool when it does happen. Smile

Yeah, I read about this last month. Can't remember who it was. Seagate or Hitachi? You could pack a LOT of storage using those things... But then again, imagine a server running MicroDrives... They come in 4GB now... Shocked

Apollo wrote on Tue, 09 March 2004 23:24

Prices have come down, and frankly, for $2500-3000, I could buy a fully loaded (3.2ghz p4, 512meg ram, dvd burner, 7500rpm drive, 64/128meg video, etc etc) laptop. And it's better than my desktop, except for storage, but you get the point. Smile

An equivalent desktop would only cost you $1500.

Laptops have their place. If you move around and need your computer with you, then they're good. I have one and I find it invaluable between home and work.
But if I didn't have that need, then there's no way I'd get a lappy. They're way too freaking expensive.

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