*new* Upgrading My Rig

[bigdawgfoxx]

$200-250 USD?!?!! For that..hmm we get that for like $120 over here...and what is socket 462??...Guessing socket A and socket 462 are the same thing...if thats $200USD then thats HIGH.

RAID and SATA are harddrive things. They are both very good...specially when combined , but basicly..there good to have.

[DWk]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@23 January 2004 - 20:38
RAID and SATA are harddrive things.  They are both very good...specially when combined , but basicly..there good to have.

Nice job man....next time actually try to explain SOMETHING.

Serial ATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or SATA) is a new standard for connecting hard drives into computer systems. As its name implies, SATA is based on serial signaling technology, unlike current IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) hard drives that use parallel signaling.
SATA has several practical advantages over the parallel signaling (also called Parallel ATA or PATA) that has been used in hard drives since the 1980s. SATA cables are more flexible, thinner, and less massive than the ribbon cables required for conventional PATA hard drives. SATA cables can be considerably longer than PATA ribbon cables, allowing the designer more latitude in the physical layout of a system. Because there are fewer conductors (only 7 in SATA as compared with 40 in PATA), crosstalk and electromagnetic interference (EMI) are less likely to be troublesome. The signal voltage is much lower as well (250 mV for SATA as compared with 5 V for PATA).

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RAID (redundant array of independent disks; originally redundant array of inexpensive disks) is a way of storing the same data in different places (thus, redundantly) on multiple hard disks. By placing data on multiple disks, I/O operations can overlap in a balanced way, improving performance. Since multiple disks increases the mean time between failure (MTBF), storing data redundantly also increases fault-tolerance.
A RAID appears to the operating system to be a single logical hard disk. RAID employs the technique of striping, which involves partitioning each drive's storage space into units ranging from a sector (512 bytes) up to several megabytes. The stripes of all the disks are interleaved and addressed in order.

In a single-user system where large records, such as medical or other scientific images, are stored, the stripes are typically set up to be small (perhaps 512 bytes) so that a single record spans all disks and can be accessed quickly by reading all disks at the same time.

In a multi-user system, better performance requires establishing a stripe wide enough to hold the typical or maximum size record. This allows overlapped disk I/O across drives.

There are at least nine types of RAID plus a non-redundant array (RAID-0):

RAID-0. This technique has striping but no redundancy of data. It offers the best performance but no fault-tolerance.
RAID-1. This type is also known as disk mirroring and consists of at least two drives that duplicate the storage of data. There is no striping. Read performance is improved since either disk can be read at the same time. Write performance is the same as for single disk storage. RAID-1 provides the best performance and the best fault-tolerance in a multi-user system.
RAID-2. This type uses striping across disks with some disks storing error checking and correcting (ECC) information. It has no advantage over RAID-3.
RAID-3. This type uses striping and dedicates one drive to storing parity information. The embedded error checking (ECC) information is used to detect errors. Data recovery is accomplished by calculating the exclusive OR (XOR) of the information recorded on the other drives. Since an I/O operation addresses all drives at the same time, RAID-3 cannot overlap I/O. For this reason, RAID-3 is best for single-user systems with long record applications.
RAID-4. This type uses large stripes, which means you can read records from any single drive. This allows you to take advantage of overlapped I/O for read operations. Since all write operations have to update the parity drive, no I/O overlapping is possible. RAID-4 offers no advantage over RAID-5.
RAID-5. This type includes a rotating parity array, thus addressing the write limitation in RAID-4. Thus, all read and write operations can be overlapped. RAID-5 stores parity information but not redundant data (but parity information can be used to reconstruct data). RAID-5 requires at least three and usually five disks for the array. It's best for multi-user systems in which performance is not critical or which do few write operations.
RAID-6. This type is similar to RAID-5 but includes a second parity scheme that is distributed across different drives and thus offers extremely high fault- and drive-failure tolerance. There are few or no commercial examples currently.
RAID-7. This type includes a real-time embedded operating system as a controller, caching via a high-speed bus, and other characteristics of a stand-alone computer. One vendor offers this system.
RAID-10. This type offers an array of stripes in which each stripe is a RAID-1 array of drives. This offers higher performance than RAID-1 but at much higher cost.
RAID-53. This type offers an array of stripes in which each stripe is a RAID-3 array of disks. This offers higher performance than RAID-3 but at much higher cost.

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I hope that's enough

[Dray_04]

nice man

[DWk]

Anytime

[bigdawgfoxx]

DWK remains the biggest bitch on the forum

You could have just posted ur info without flaming at mine cuz you dont start fights...ur a bitch

[Dray_04]

lol yer that was pretty mean,

but then again that was pretty harsh to call him a bitch...

..now now girls settle down

[_John_Lennon_]

Originally posted by dray_02@23 January 2004 - 23:52
lol yer that was pretty mean,

but then again that was pretty harsh to call him a bitch...

..now now girls settle down

250NZD = 168.025 USD

Just converted.

Of course, it will probably end up us having to settle for a place's product, not a product's place, if you guys know what I mean, because of the lower selection of Computer stuff in new zealand, that, and they dont have Newegg.

[Dray_04]

yer it really sucks in NZ,

hardware is expensive, as is broadband, because thers not too many ppl over here. (just over 4,000,000 wahoo)

thats why i would rewally love to buy hardware from overseas

[DWk]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@23 January 2004 - 21:44
DWK remains the biggest bitch on the forum

You could have just posted ur info without flaming at mine cuz you dont start fights...ur a bitch

Unlike your reply, mine is a constructive criticism. I'm actually showing you one of the many ways in which you can actually help a person (this would be by posting useful info).

As usual, you call me a bitch, an a**hole, whatever you want.