The 15k will be a better choice for running a database. The drive is more optimized for situations like that and has faster seek times which is very important in database applications.
The PCIE NIC is the best suggestion here and I would highly recommend you do it. You can pick up quality PCIE nics (Broadcom Xtreme Gigabit) for around $50 from HP.
Actually I had heard it will support 8gb using 2gb modules (expensive!) and I really can't see how the SATA-II interface will provide any major performance increases over the existing SATA-I connection. Technically SATA-II is capable of more speed but SATA-I did not seem to be holding the...
Maybe 7 seconds from Windows Splash screen to desktop, but not from power on. Running a Seagate 15k Cheetah drive would mean runnnig through a SCSI bios first which take 5-7 seconds by itself.
Forgot to talk about jumbo frames... There are very few inexpensive gigabit switches that actually support jumbo frames. As far as I know, the SMC products were the only ones under $500 that actually did. Regardless, jumbo frames will not always provide you with an increase in speed. Their main...
Whoever told you they were getting speeds of around 800-900mbs were either a) lying b) copying files from memory c) copying files between some fast SCSI Raid Arrays. When you move to gigabit ethernet the hard drive becomes the bottleneck so unless you own a hard drive capable writing at...
I don't think any particular case size is better for cooling than others. The cooling of a case is dependant on it's case fan arrangement, not total size. A full tower will little cooling will have higher temperatures than a middle-tower with a good fan setup.
Check this for me...
Control Panel->System->Advanced Tab->Performance Options: Make sure that you are set to Application and not system cache. I was on a Win2k box at the time of posting so some of my wording may be a little different.
While this information may be new to some, I thought most of it was pretty common knowledge by now. Soundstorm audio users do face a problem as far as upgrading goes but as mentioned in this post there are some options for them. I actually think that discrete 5.1 analog inputs are not as...
We had something like this happen on some laptops at my work and the problem was with the actual RJ-45 connection built into the unit. Since you have already swapped out all that other stuff I would suspect a faulty onboard connection. You could verfiy this by putting a PCI network card in that...
Well windows is always fastest right after a reboot. Even with XP's superior memory management some resources are lost along the way and are not regained until restart. I don't know all the technical details but this just seems to be the default behaviour of windows operating systems. Older...
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