calculon000 said:Now I have to wait until after boxing day and get it exchanged for a motherboard that has the right number of pins for my processor and the right AGP slot for my video card.
Your motherboard doesn't have a fucking AGP slot at all.calculon000 said:
Ratty said:
The hell? Your motherboard has s939. The question is, what kind of a shitty CPU did you buy?calculon000 said:Now I have to wait until after boxing day and get it exchanged for a motherboard that has the right number of pins for my processor and the right AGP slot for my video card.
Eh? RAID 1 won't make your system much faster, that would be RAID 0, and it won't make your system *much* faster, that depends on whether the harddisk is the bottleneck or not.Finesse said:
A little clarification for Finesse's and calculon's benefit here: RAID 1 can make reading substantially faster, because the reading operation will be conducted on the hard drive which requires minimum head repositioning to access the appropriate track. Writing operations may actually be slower with RAID 1, because data needs to be written twice - once to each hard drive. Nonetheless, I recommend RAID 1 setup for a system which is used to store a lot of large files, such as movies, MP3s, CD images etc.Sander said:
A RAID 0 setup of N drives is N times as fast as a single hard drive (in an ideal case). As Sander pointed out, this performance boost will be noticeable only in situations when HDD operations are so intensive that hard drive bottlenecks the system. It probably won't affect game performance. Also note that a RAID 0 setup is unsafe as hell, and its safety decreases with each additional hard drive. If you have a RAID 0 array with N hard drives, each with MTTF (mean-time to failure) factor T, then the MTTF of the entire array is T/N. So, if you have a hard drive which is expected to give up the ghost in 5 years, a RAID 0 array of five such hard drives is expected to malfunction in only one year! Worst of all, in a RAID 0 system all data is distributed on all hard drives and there is *no* redundancy (makes you wonder why it's called "RAID" at all), so when one hard drive breaks, you lose all your data! Simply put, RAID 0 is an extremely unsafe array and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
That difference won't be that noticeable, mainly because the heads will almost always in (practically) the same position, because they perform exactly the same operations.Ratty said:
I think I can safely assume he writes that stuff to one of his three servers.Ratty said:
Que? Teh bullshit.TheWesDude said:
Thorgrimm? Where?Sander said:
RAID 0:
_____________ _____________
|data stripe 1| |data stripe 2|
|_____________| |_____________|
|data stripe 3| |data stripe 4|
|_____________| |_____________|
|data stripe 5| |data stripe 6|
|_____________| |_____________|
Data drive #1 Data drive #2
RAID 1:
_____________ _____________________
|data stripe 1| |copy of data stripe 1|
|_____________| |_____________________|
|data stripe 2| |copy of data stripe 2|
|_____________| |_____________________|
|data stripe 3| |copy of data stripe 3|
|_____________| |_____________________|
Data drive #1 Mirror drive #1
RAID 2:
_____________ _____________ _______________ _______________
|data stripes | |data stripes | |parity stripes | |parity stripes |
|_____________| |_____________| |_______________| |_______________|
|data stripes | |data stripes | |parity stripes | |parity stripes |
|_____________| |_____________| |_______________| |_______________|
|data stripes | |data stripes | |parity stripes | |parity stripes |
|_____________| |_____________| |_______________| |_______________|
Data drive #1 Data drive #2 Parity drive #1 Parity drive #2
Note: Stripes are bit-sized (unlike other RAID arrays, where each stripe encompasses one or more sectors). To protect N bits, one needs ld(N) + 1 protective bits. Essentially, that means that in order to protect N hard drives, you need ld(N) + 1 additonal hard drives for error correcting.
RAID 3:
_____________ _____________ _____________ _______________
|data stripe 1| |data stripe 2| |data stripe 3| |parity stripe 1|
|_____________| |_____________| |_____________| |_______________|
|data stripe 4| |data stripe 5| |data stripe 6| |parity stripe 2|
|_____________| |_____________| |_____________| |_______________|
|data stripe 7| |data stripe 8| |data stripe 9| |parity stripe 3|
|_____________| |_____________| |_____________| |_______________|
Data drive #1 Data drive #2 Data drive #3 Parity drive
Note: One and only one dedicated parity drive is used.
RAID 4:
Conceptually identical to RAID 3, but it uses coarse-grained striping instead of fine-grained striping.
RAID 5:
_______________ _______________ _______________
|data stripe 1 | |data stripe 2 | |parity stripe 1|
|_______________| |_______________| |_______________|
|data stripe 3 | |parity stripe 2| |data stripe 4 |
|_______________| |_______________| |_______________|
|parity stripe 3| |data stripe 5 | |data stripe 6 |
|_______________| |_______________| |_______________|
Hard drive #1 Hard drive #2 Hard drive #3
Note: RAID 5 doesn't have a dedicated parity drive. Parity stripes are treated as normal data stripes and distributed across all drives. This prevents a frequent problem with RAID 3 and RAID 4 arrays - namely, the dedicated parity drive becoming a bottleneck.
RAID 6:
_______________ _______________ _______________ _______________
|data stripe 1 | |data stripe 2 | |parity stripe 1| |data stripe 3 |
|_______________| |_______________| |_______________| |_______________|
|data stripe 4 | |parity stripe 2| |data stripe 5 | |parity stripe 3|
|_______________| |_______________| |_______________| |_______________|
|parity stripe 4| |data stripe 6 | |parity stripe 5| |parity stripe 6|
|_______________| |_______________| |_______________| |_______________|
Hard drive #1 Hard drive #2 Hard drive #3 Hard drive #4
Note:
RAID 6 is conceptually similar to RAID 5, except it uses Reed-Solomon protective code, a double-parity code which permits correction of two errors per stripe. This also means that in a RAID 6 array there are twice as many parity stripes as in a RAID 5 array.
Combinations of the above:
RAID 0+1, RAID 10, RAID 30, RAID 50, RAID 0+5, RAID 51, RAID 1+5...
Bwaha.Wooz said:
Go with 2 GB instead.
What manufacturer?
You'd be better off with a RAID setup.
You'd be better off with a RAID setup.