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$2300 working/gaming build

Save up until you can afford it. If you buy it all when you have the cash you'll probably find it is only $2000 and might get faster components such as a new model of SSD or something.
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- Post #48
- Feb 6, 2013
- Forum: Computer Building
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Browsing Anandtech on a 2560 wide monitor is just annoying!

Sleepingforest, the forums do actually scale out wider quite well. The main website however does not. I do obviously have pages in windows quite a lot, but I also like having an article completely cover a screen, to be completely immersed in it. I'm now at work where I have a 1920x1200 screen...
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- Post #5
- Feb 6, 2013
- Forum: Computer Building
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Browsing Anandtech on a 2560 wide monitor is just annoying!

Along with most other sites for that matter. I have a full 180mm on each side of the article that is completely blank! This includes the advertisements and news listings on the right. Can we get more text to scale onto the line and make each page wider automatically to suit each screen? Or...
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- Thread
- Feb 6, 2013
- Replies: 23
- Forum: Computer Building
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Now to wait nervously as this rebuilds

Having 8 drives in raid 5 would worry me too without an offline backup. I tend to buy drives of the next size up (ie going from 500 to 750 rather than 500 to 1tb) so I have fairly new drives at all times and that I can also keep the old drives in a Seagate 20 drive box as an offline copy for the...
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- Post #18
- Jan 5, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Want to be part of AnandTech Storage Suite 2013? Read this

Would you be interested in the trace from 15-30 user terminal servers? I could provide 4 from very different uses at different companies. May not be strictly relevant to a single user, but would almost be like mega tasking - hah? All of them of course don't have the line of business app database...
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- Post #26
- Jan 2, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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SSD for LSI Cachecade?

Funny you say that, while I'm aware that Sandforce drives can be backed into a hole that they just can't get out of, I thought with a reasonable amount of over provisioning that they would be ok, although I understand the other points about their reliability and so on.
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- Post #17
- Oct 13, 2012
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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SRT Questions

Using an SSD above 64gb is perfectly fine. RST won't be able to use it of course, but you can use a seperate partition for other data if you like, or of course you can just leave it unpartitioned entirely and effectively overprovision the SSD. There are a number of reasonable 60gb SSD's at about...
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- Post #8
- Oct 12, 2012
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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SSD for LSI Cachecade?

Thanks for that again mrpiggy. I'm still not completely clear on why Sandforce drives aren't suitable?
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- Post #14
- Oct 12, 2012
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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SSD for LSI Cachecade?

Thanks for that, I'd prefer the drives to be in Raid 1 in case either of them drop off, in which case allocating around 300gb out of 480/512 is probably ok? Any further ideas on model of SSD?
- bradcollins
- Post #11
- Oct 10, 2012
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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SSD for LSI Cachecade?

Cerb, there would be periods of little activity, most would get ~8 hours a day of idle time in between normal use and the backup running, good GC would be important though, which is why I'm leaning towards Sandforce based drives. mrpiggy, you are correct of course, any current reasonably quick...
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- Post #9
- Oct 9, 2012
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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SSD for LSI Cachecade?

ignoring how good or bad TRIM is, it isn't relevant here, so... Cerb, why do you think the M4 would be a good option? I've been looking into some of the SLC Sandforce drives out there that Comay and Superspeed offer, they don't drop in performance when filled up as much as other Sandforce...
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- Post #4
- Oct 8, 2012
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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SSD for LSI Cachecade?

http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/MegaRAIDSAS9271-8iCC.aspx At work we purchase a number of these as IBM M5110's and usually put the 1gb flash and raid 5 module on them when building servers for 10-25 people. The current X3500 and X3650 ship with 8 hdd bays and these...
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- Thread
- Oct 8, 2012
- Replies: 34
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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AMD & RAID Performance

I had an 890fx board and I found the performance was much slower than my Intel P45 based board (with a single drive). So slow in fact that I ended up building a 3 drive raid 0 to get around the performance problem on the AMD platform. This gave me about 150% of the performance of a single drive...
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- Post #4
- Sep 1, 2012
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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P9X79 Pro fan speed control issue

With my new P9X79 Pro motherboard I'm having a strange problem with fan speed. First of all, if I set the fans to quiet or anything in the bios they won't go below 60%, which is too loud. So in windows using AIsuite I've set the fans to lower speeds, the rear 92mm's on 45%, and the two 120mm's...
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- Thread
- Jan 7, 2012
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Motherboards
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Requesting a cheap virtualization build

Why would you need up to three of them? For three different people to use at once? If not surely one more powerful system makes more sense?
- bradcollins
- Post #16
- Jan 6, 2012
- Forum: Computer Building

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