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On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 14:06 +0100, Simon Williams wrote:
> therwise IDE is fine. And
> you will get no speed benefit whatsoever from SATA if you have to go
> through a PCI controller. PCI is slow. Possibly slower than IDE.
It's not quick, going through a PCI card, but its quite useable, even on
a workstation which has got one in hanging off a card.
Only reason I went sata when needing replacement disks and/or larger
disks was to "future proof" for new motherboards later on, which will
have native sata. I expect these disks to be in use for some 4-5 years
or so given the average life I seem to get, and they will probably be
swapped out into workstations as the central repository grows in
capacity in time. It is probable if the centre server becomes a myth
pvr/radio server as well (can one do radio like TV? I've never seen any
codes like the wotsit you get with the Radio Times for telly programs,
and I find radio much more interesting nowadays, R4 being the only place
with some decent broadcast journalism nowadays), as I was saying if
going this route the motherboard will most probably have to change for a
much faster and more rammy setup which will have native sata and raid,
and heading-towards-terabyte capacity disks will probably have become
consumer items in a few seasons!
I suspect I will continue to use an old P200-400 level with sata add on
card for the duration as a rsync backup server ("backup" in inverteds,
but tape kit costs too much for home use, so its the best low end
solution to shove at the other end of the house hanging off a wire).
I'd prefer to have only one 'pooter doing myth, samba,nfs,email to keep
the lekky/CO2 costs as low as poss, so that will probably drive things
to a higher spec to cover all the bases.
Now, heading off a tangentially, what would I need to have one box do
all that AND provide a remote x-windows to 3 or 4 terminals at once
using ancient PCs/old laptops and be of solid performance?
I wonder if its worth the cost of upgrading individual boxes not used
for games but for basic stuff, when the dosh could be put into one
seriously capable multicore beast with oodles of ram, and the remaining
money put into some good monitors.
As a complete aside, can one serve up Win XP remotely like x-windows
sessions or is that a non starter if one needs to use something under
windows? Its not often, but when ya gotta have it ya gotta have it :-(
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