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May. 2nd, 2002 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yakk0dotorgWell, I'm in Misery, I mean Missouri for Teresa's graduation. The trip's been ok, but because of some stresses related to her parents coming up here and final exams this trip hasn't been as relaxing as I had hoped. She got very little sleep last nite due to studying and a small argument. I got even less and barely slept at all. All is well now except for the lack of sleep.
I meet the parents Saturday. This scares me more than I let Teresa see. I'm now cleanshaven and got short hair, so unless I do something stupid (which is always a strong possibility with me) things should go ok.
When Teresa gets out of class we're going to the mall in Columbia so I can get her a final graduation present. I think she'll love this, but I will get in trouble for spending the money. In addition to that she got an Ugly Mug shirt, Dr. Zhivago (sp.) and a ring. No not that kind of ring. Just a silver ring with a flutterby on it.
I've also had the desire to build a new PC for home. Construction will begin after my room in the new apartment is clean and unpacked. This is gonna be a workstation class machine and is a monster. It's going to have 2GB of memory and over half a Terabyte of hard drive storage. The full specs are at http://yakk0.org/~yakko/newpc.htm
I meet the parents Saturday. This scares me more than I let Teresa see. I'm now cleanshaven and got short hair, so unless I do something stupid (which is always a strong possibility with me) things should go ok.
When Teresa gets out of class we're going to the mall in Columbia so I can get her a final graduation present. I think she'll love this, but I will get in trouble for spending the money. In addition to that she got an Ugly Mug shirt, Dr. Zhivago (sp.) and a ring. No not that kind of ring. Just a silver ring with a flutterby on it.
I've also had the desire to build a new PC for home. Construction will begin after my room in the new apartment is clean and unpacked. This is gonna be a workstation class machine and is a monster. It's going to have 2GB of memory and over half a Terabyte of hard drive storage. The full specs are at http://yakk0.org/~yakko/newpc.htm
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Date: 2002-05-03 04:57 pm (UTC)If you're gonna spend all that money on a RAID subsystem in a workstation-class machine, why not just go SCSI? A nice Ultra160 RAID card and 7 36GB Ultra160 drives would be quite spiffy tastic, and more geekly to boot (SCSI IDs and termination, bay bee!). And then...... hook it up to your refridgerator and put it all on the Web.
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Date: 2002-05-03 09:40 pm (UTC)Anyhoo, I'd havta see numbers first. SCSI is typically faster than IDE.. now, if you compare a 1985/88 SCSI-1/2 drive with UATA/100 drives, then yeah, SCSI's slower, and that's what people typically do. :-) Ultra160 should more than hold its own against UATA/133 tho. And you also get that whole 15 drive per controller thing... 4 controllers, filled to the brim, in RAID-0+5 would be groovynifty. :-)
If you manage to get a nice (Adaptec) Ultra160 controller from somewhere, I'll let you borrow my Ultra160 drive so you can bench it. It's in my beige G4 at home, connected to the machine's really slow SCSI-2 controller...