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In searching for bottlenecks, I've found having the "My Documents" folder on one of the other arrays causes it to hang while the array spins up. Moving

Just downloaded ATTO, and it's analysis more closely fits my sense of it's performance. Write 130MB/s Read 240MB/s

I have no doubt of that. Considering we are now seeing arrays where the bottleneck is the controller, that will likely be the theme of the next few years.

I really like the G15. The backlit keys are wonderful, the black really does make it easier. I have the LED display folded down because it doesn't work in Server 2003 without SP2 installed and I still can't make that work(!). The Razor Copperhead is also the best mouse I've ever used, at full...

To be honest I didn't even bother checking. I knew I didn't want anything slower than my existing array in any category, and ordered to achieve that. That said, I have no doubt that one of these would have given a better user experience as an OS drive than my Raptors. Even with the lower STR...

Durability was solved a long time ago. These days the drive can be read and written continuously for 10-30 years.

Vista is fine, provided you do things where performance isn't an issue. When I rolled the main machine at home back from Vista Ultimate to Server 2003 Standard, she missed a number of features including the better thumbnails for multimedia files and more intelligent search capabilities.

Until my new case is finished, I have functioning computer guts all over my desk. eww....

Meh, cloned my Server 2003 install from the raptors to the SSD array. Same thing as Ubuntu. OS boot in seconds, and when it is up, it is ready. Every app loads instantly. In Supreme Commander, Crysis, and Railroads! level load times are easily a third of what they were before.

Thanks for the info, e_dawg. Shame about the 30/1.4, that would be a great Tango lens...

I just installed Ubuntu 7.10 because, frankly, I couldn't get XP or Vista to install and Server 2003 is at my office. This is really incredible. Literally 2 seconds to desktop, everything is immediate. No delays anywhere.

I just wanted to see how quickly Vista would boot off it; and the answer is: it won't. Even though the system requirements state 40GB minimum, it simply refused.

Agreed.

That's right, I forgot the Canon 10-22 was an EF-S. I have no doubt it would be challenging, and I have no doubt that I would take horrible pictures with it. But it would be a fun toy to play with.

Windows XP 32-bit retail CD BSODs any time the SSD array is attached. It boots to the CD, I press F6 to load controller drivers from floppy. It prompts for which driver to load from disk, I tell it. It finishes loading all the drivers and says "Starting Windows..." Then it BSODs telling me to...

Thanks for the tips on the 17-50/2.8. I'll have to have a closer look at it. The 5D II looks promising. Going to a FF sensor would help my lenses on the wide end (10mm + FF = goodness).

There is nothing like rumors of a bank being financially unstable to make a bank financially unstable. Whether they were or not, this is the environment that runs on banks require.

Tamron's 17-50mm f/2.8 is a $450 lens. Canon's 17-55 IS is a $175 lens.

The cropping of that image makes it particularly suggestive...rule of thirds, anyone?

I didn't mean to sound defensive or anything, I was just under the wrong impression when I read the headline. You do, however, make a valid point.

Some stopwatch work indicates about 100MB/s for both read and write.

Unfortunatly the free version of HDTach won't tell me. Though I suspect it is similar to the read graph.

Here are some basic stats from HDTach 3.0.4.0 for all the arrays currently in my system: 10x 750GB 7200.10 in RAID5 Access: 11.3ms Burst: 201.7MB/s Average: 122.5MB/s 2x 74GB Raptors in RAID0 Access: 8.1ms Burst: 201.9MB/s Average: 117.3MB/s 3x 16GB MTron MSD-6000 in RAID0 Access: 0.1ms...

Just arrived still in the box forwarded from Korea. The UPS guy informed me they were insured for $5k+ <shrug>. Bringing the system down now to drop the array in.

I think the headline is a bit sensationalistic. The US economy is not as large as all 15 countries that use the Euro. When a single other country has an economy the same size, let me know. Granted, our economy is in the can and not getting better any time soon, but the title is a bit much.

It would be a replacement for my current 18-55 (non-IS). It is a great general purpose "walk around" lens, the IS would help because these are all handheld shots. The 10-22 is the next lens on the list. I'm trying to put together a list of lenses I want in Russia, so far it looks like this...

I ended up just buying the program M2Convert for Zen. it works quite well.

Drives should be arriving today, any particular tests anyone would like run?

The Canon 18-55 IS kit lens is getting pretty good reviews...I'm thinking about it.

I just don't know what the big deal is...when I first heard about this I thought: let his wife deal with it. Then I heard about what a hardon he has been to the people he's prosecuted, and figured he deserved to go down; not for this in particular, just for being a jerk.

Damn....I wonder what it would take to be able to play Crysis @ 1920x1080....

No prices and no info about what product they are re-branding. Those specs match the MTron MSP-7000. OCZ's last SSD (saw it at a couple stores) matched the MSD-6000. I think MTron is trying to find a brand name to market with.

I don't think it matters what the people think; the press seems to be in his corner. I do think I prefer him at the moment...though not strongly enough to really care.

Interesting Wavemaker...where is that from? Mine are scheduled to arrive on Friday, so I'll be testing them over the weekend and likely doing the OS re-install on Tuesday.

I don't need 21 or 24. But I do like to have prints in the 24x36 range, and 15MP is plenty for that.

I could use something in the 15MP range...

She's got a green card. We'll still only be engaged when we get back, so no legal issues until the next trip.

Mid May is likely (in New York on our way to Moscow).

Meh. I bought an engagement ring the same day, so my wallet was numb ;)

I have fallen for 1920x1080. I was totally with Tony and Merc about 4:3 ratio displays, but they just don't come this big (42"). And to be honest, 1080 vertical resolution is enough for most anything.

$1300 (ouch)

Back when I was into hardcore silent computing, I ran CrystalCPUID with 3 different speed/voltage settings...none of the reporting tools could keep up.

Well, I turned mine down to 3Ghz so it was stable in AutoGK. It does report the right speed in Windows, and did @ 3.8Ghz as well.

Finally got around to ordering... 3x 16GB MTRON MSD-6000 3.5" Since I have a significant number (10) of free SATA ports (6 on-board and 4 more in the RAID card), I might as well go for higher STR... I wonder if this card will do online expansion of RAID0 arrays...

Well, this is an XFX i780...I'll see what they have.

Both Motherboard Monitor and the nVidia "System Monitor" give the same information.

Now I'm @ 3.2Ghz and a minor vCore adjustment. I may hold off until I get a better heatsink; the core just ticked past 70C.

Yup. Stock cooling and no vcore. It was actually getting to the desktop and idling fine @ 3.8. All the tests and games do just fine @ 3.5, but XviD seems to be unhappy. Is there a way to change that in Windows without rebooting? I'd love to have the exta power in games...

dammit!

What is the performance hit of running it in a linux VM?