November 09, 2005

New specs

Okay, just ordered the new parts. Here's what we got.

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NE
CPU: AMD Sempron 3100+, 32-bit version*
Hard drive: Western Digital WD2500JD**
Video: Gigabyte GV-NX66256DP

Feeback from those of you who know enough to care (or care enough to know, I guess, though the former seems much more likely) is hereby solicited.

*Though 64-bit processors are cool and all, none of the software I want to use is written in 64-bit code, so what's the point? There isn't even a mainstream 64-bit version of Windows available yet, and as all the software I want to run is Windows-based... there didn't seem much point in spending extra money for something I don't want.

**I've already got one, but needed this to turn my 120GB RAID into a fully-functional 250GB array. The 120GB drive I currently have paired up just crapped out. Freaking Maxtor...

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Posted by ryan at November 9, 2005 02:32 PM | TrackBack
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just curious, why are you doing RAID on a desktop?

Posted by: bobw at November 9, 2005 02:55 PM

Um, what's wrong with Maxtor? We just put a 120GB in as a second drive.

Posted by: mrscrumley at November 9, 2005 04:04 PM

bobw: I keep a lot of data, (I'm around 125GB at last count) and having lost a bunch to a faulty drive before, I prefer a little redundancy. DVD backups are all well and good, but annoying. It's also really fast.

mrscrumley: Maxtor is the brand of the drive that just died on me.

Posted by: ryan at November 9, 2005 05:29 PM

cool. what kind of controller are you using? I only ask because we had some drives mirrored by the standard windows thing, and it caused them both to die, which led to a very sad, expensive, and long week, since it was our production server.

Posted by: bobw at November 10, 2005 12:40 PM
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