06-07-2003, 01:29 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-07-2003, 01:29 AM by CowInvader.)
Heh, it is surprising where how you see seniority come out of the woodwork here, as it is the nature of the lounge. I have been around since a couple of months before the D2X beta... I thought that the subsequent flood was what the lounge was all about at first but soon learned my folly. Then Bolty closed down the site, I kept checking back on the front page every so often but no news... one day I ventured into the forums and alas they were back up... I went in and saw a post saying they were closing yet again... but here we are.
Anyways, on the actual subject, I admit that the seek times on a SCSI drive are unparalled right now, but I'm liking the promise of the SATA drives. Besides the faster speeds and everything else, the one point that made me ultimately buy it is that SATA drives consume 10% of the cpu power to access them as IDE drives... and they are getting fast enough to rival SCSI (the motherboard support to put them on seperate "pipelines" so that they aren't restricted to a speed lower than their actual capability will need to come first however).
The vaccuum cleaner filters, yea, thats basically it, I put the filters on one side of the fan (it doesn't really matter which way, other than for cleaning purposes, so pick the way that looks best) with some elmer's glue around the sides and it catches most of the dust that comes in.
Anyways, on the actual subject, I admit that the seek times on a SCSI drive are unparalled right now, but I'm liking the promise of the SATA drives. Besides the faster speeds and everything else, the one point that made me ultimately buy it is that SATA drives consume 10% of the cpu power to access them as IDE drives... and they are getting fast enough to rival SCSI (the motherboard support to put them on seperate "pipelines" so that they aren't restricted to a speed lower than their actual capability will need to come first however).
The vaccuum cleaner filters, yea, thats basically it, I put the filters on one side of the fan (it doesn't really matter which way, other than for cleaning purposes, so pick the way that looks best) with some elmer's glue around the sides and it catches most of the dust that comes in.