Re: [LUG] Introduction and opinion sought...

[Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You'll find SATA is faster.

I build a similar spec PC to mine for a friend, the only difference was 
they had less memory (512MB compared to the 1GB I have), they had an 
NVidia chipset rather than VIA K8T800 and they had a Maxtor SATA drive 
and were running a Sempron 3100+ where as I am running an Athlon 64 
3000+ with a Samsung UATA133 drive.  Their PC seemed faster than mine, 
at least the hard disk was faster, and with the same sort of price, and 
smaller cables (for better air flow etc) then I'd go down the SATA route 
myself.

Only reason I haven't got SATA yet is because I can't find any local 
computer shops which did the drives as cheap as I could afford when I 
upgraded earlier on last year.

Rob


Martin White wrote:

> > What languages? What kind of projects?
> > Have you now got a steady income?
> > (Do you fancy helping me with free software?)
> >    
>
> I'll start a new thread for this since i was going to post related to this but 
> you beat me to it :)
>
>  
>
> > Don't ditch that box - stick a distribution like Debian on it that doesn't
> > need so much effort to prepare and even less to maintain and use it on a
> > home network for CVS, local IMAP, test machine, LDAP, DNS, all sorts of
> > server tasks.
> >    
>
> Only thing is, i'm actually dissapearing under boxes at the moment! Last week 
> i bought tow second hand 19" 1U rackmount servers (PIII 800Mhz, 512MB & 1GB 
> ram respectively) and was going to have a real shuffle around of what's going 
> on here so the chances are that i won't need the shuttle any more. Now that 
> said, those servers are proving to be VERY noisy (5 fans inside!) so maybe 
> they'll be up for grabs and i'll go for the shuttle setup instead? We'll see.
>
>  
>
> > My problem with all such devices is that the compromises required to remove
> > the fans mean a limited operational life, a limited upgrade path and
> > therefore rapid obsolescence. As above, these machines can be easily
> > recycled to run as servers but that's not why you pay the premium for near
> > silent operation!
> >    
>
> I'm not so sure that these things really bother me all that much. Although the 
> whole industry is at a bit of a stalemate with regards to progress right now 
> (IMHO anyway) in general, i've never gone to upgrade a machine without 
> haveing to junk the mobo and ram AT LEAST even when i have used stock parts 
> so i kind of stopped caring about proprietry mobos a long time ago. 
> Fortunately ideas like MCA cards (god bless them!) don't come up often 
> anymore.
>
> Anyway, i'm waffling really when i should be working.
>
> How about IDE versus SATA? Any major pro's for SATA or should i not really be 
> all that fussed?
>
> Sorry if this is a bit OT, i guess it's not specifically Linux talk, but the 
> machine will have linux on it and all my friends come to me for PC advice so 
> i need to go somewhere :)
>
> Cheers,
> Martin.
>
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