A good arguement for SSD

[Van]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs]YouTube - Samsung SSD Awesomeness[/ame]

Once the price comes down ofcourse then we can all do this.

 

[Van]

Forgot to include the price tag as of March 02 / 09

ltimate Specifications:
24 X Samsung 256GB SSD (USD900 X 24= USD21,600)
2 X Intel Extreme QX9775 Quad Core (USD2800)
4 X Kingston 800Mhz FBDIMM 1Gb (USD200)
2 X Radeon HD 4870 X2 GPU Crossfire (USD420)
1 X Intel Skulltrail D5400XS Motherboard (USD640)
6 X 1 SAS > 4X SATA SFF-8087 (USD60)
6 X 1 Molex > 4X SATA Power (USD60)
2 X Corsair HX1000W PSU (USD240)
2 X Zalman Coolers (USD120)
1 X Adaptec 5 series RAID (8 Channel, Stock Setup) (USD150)
1 X Areca 1680ix-24 RAID (USD1200)
1 X Thermaltake Armor Case (USD210)

Total: USD 27,700

 

[roachxp]

SDD drives are taking off, some of our server products already run on theses with 240+ in raid and 32-512gb each. They'er blazin fast and can't wait till the price comes down for regular consumers then tho i have a 32gb one already for the laptop.

 

[Van]

Yea I'm waiting on the prices to, tigerdirect had a sale on them recently for the 320gb version I believe it was or it may have been the 150gb.

 

[John Kotches]

for evwrything else youre shoving in why arent you installing more than4 gb of physical memory.

 

[Van]

I think it was to show what the drives could do with a 32bit OS, they also didn't use the latest in memory type or in processor or video card but regardless it did turn out the speed.

 

[Neutron]

for evwrything else youre shoving in why arent you installing more than4 gb of physical memory.

If it was a 32 bit OS there's no point. In fact, anything above 3.2 GB is pointless.

 

[Van]

If it was a 32 bit OS there's no point. In fact, anything above 3.2 GB is pointless.

vista will handle 4 though right? that was the impression that I have gotten from what I've read.

 

[John Kotches]

If it was a 32 bit OS there's no point. In fact, anything above 3.2 GB is pointless.

8 CPUs and 4GB of RAM (these are dual quads) is pointless.

In fact, a 32bit OS can address more than 3.2GB, but you have to use something along the lines of Linux, FreeBSD or Solaris to use all of it.

 

[John Kotches]

vista will handle 4 though right? that was the impression that I have gotten from what I've read.

4GB minus some caching of things like System and Gfx BIOS.

 

[navychop]

Are there still compatibility problems with some apps and 64 bit Windows?

 

[Van]

I haven't heard anything lately but then again I haven't been reading my gaming and modding forums in a few months. Planet Calypso ( formerly Entropia Universe formerly Project Entropia ) finally supports vista so its possible that the majority of software and hardware has drivers that will work with vista 32 and 64.

 

[TheForce]

Vista 64 bit OS or in fact XP 64 bit will use more than 3.2 memory. I have 8 Gb in my Vista 64 bit desktop and my wife has a new Dell laptop with Vista 64bit OS and 4 GB.

 

[digiblur]

Are there still compatibility problems with some apps and 64 bit Windows?

Cisco VPN is one of them.

 

[TheForce]

Compatibility with Vista 64?

Yes, any older 8 bit apps, I have one left will not run even with a hack like I did in XP.

Also, I have several 3rd party plugins for Sony Vegas. None of these seem to work on the new Vista 64 bit version of Vegas, However, Vista 64 bit OS will run the 32 bit version of Vegas too and the plug ins still work. So, this is a Vegas 64 bit issue, not Vista.

 

[LER]

see if you can upgrade to the Cisco WebVPN client. Works great on Vista Home Premium 64 for me.

It's the any connect client, FWIW. It might take an upgrade at the server end.

 

[Van]

Vista 64 bit OS or in fact XP 64 bit will use more than 3.2 memory. I have 8 Gb in my Vista 64 bit desktop and my wife has a new Dell laptop with Vista 64bit OS and 4 GB.

Right but the 32 bit versions wont see anything past 4 gig which was what was being talked about, Im not sure just how much vista 64 can see.

 

[John Kotches]

Vista 64 bit OS or in fact XP 64 bit will use more than 3.2 memory. I have 8 Gb in my Vista 64 bit desktop and my wife has a new Dell laptop with Vista 64bit OS and 4 GB.

Yes, 64-bit can address a lot of memory. My big servers coming in will have 256GB of physical memory.

Regards,

 

[John Kotches]

Right but the 32 bit versions wont see anything past 4 gig which was what was being talked about, Im not sure just how much vista 64 can see.

Technically, a 64-bit operating system should see 2^64 bytes of memory. That would be 4 GB * 4GB or 1.8 * 10^18th power.

Why 18? Remember that a K is 1024 bytes (2^10)

Anything less than that is an artificial limitation.

 

[John Kotches]

Cisco VPN is one of them.

No (insert expletive here) way! I better let my network guys know (if they don't already) so they can test this.

Cheers,