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| SirPoonga:
I was watching late night infomercials. I don;t fall into marketting, I usually laugh at it, and this one is no exception. But it is a good price for what you get. http://www.tigertv.com The marketting was funny, they are claiming they came up with the idea of the windowed pc:) Also they made a big deal about the 7200rpm drive. If anyone read slashdot last week we all know a 5400rpm wd is the fastest, quietest drive out there. The 8mg cache on a 5400 will be overall faster than a 2mg cache on a 7200. I;m sure 8 meg 7200s will come out soon though. http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1540/ Anyway, looking at the specs, other than the video card (unless you get the gamers upgrade) it is very high tech as you can get. BTW, that thing on the top of the monitor, 8 channel microphone, wtf? $1500 isn't bad for a commercial product like that. My favorite feature, being I have a very nice digicam, is the card readers on it. BTW, it comes with overclocking software, I haven't seen that in a commercial product. |
| isugoat:
err the WD SE that has the 8 MB cache is a 7200 RPM drive... on a side note, i always have to watch the infomercials whenever I see them seling a computer...some of the deals really aren't that bad and its nice to see so many of them sporting AMDs. |
| hyiu:
although I'm not a professional in computer hardware... but I thought 10,000 rpm gusty HD were out yrs ago.... I donno how quiet they are... but they have to be faster than 7200rpm and the 5400rpm ones.... right ??..... ??? ??? am I missing something here ?? misunderstanding ?? ??? ??? |
| SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: hyiu on October 17, 2002, 01:54:47 pm ---although I'm not a professional in computer hardware... but I thought 10,000 rpm gusty HD were out yrs ago.... I donno how quiet they are... but they have to be faster than 7200rpm and the 5400rpm ones.... right ??..... ??? ??? am I missing something here ?? misunderstanding ?? ??? ??? --- End quote --- Like isugoat said, 7200 8meg cache drives are you. Yeah, there are 10,000 rpm drives, expensive. If you read that slashdot article, rpm doesn't determine speed. It's a combo of cache and rpm. Those 5400rpm drives in the article are faster than the 7200 because they only used 2meg cache 7200 rpm drive. I didn't read the article completely, it's rather long, I just went to the conclusion. I'd assume they are comparing 5400 8meg cache drives to 7200rpm with 2meg cache because the price is relatively the same. |
| isugoat:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on October 17, 2002, 07:15:42 pm --- --- Quote from: hyiu on October 17, 2002, 01:54:47 pm ---although I'm not a professional in computer hardware... but I thought 10,000 rpm gusty HD were out yrs ago.... I donno how quiet they are... but they have to be faster than 7200rpm and the 5400rpm ones.... right ??..... ??? ??? am I missing something here ?? misunderstanding ?? ??? ??? --- End quote --- Like isugoat said, 7200 8meg cache drives are you. Yeah, there are 10,000 rpm drives, expensive. If you read that slashdot article, rpm doesn't determine speed. It's a combo of cache and rpm. Those 5400rpm drives in the article are faster than the 7200 because they only used 2meg cache 7200 rpm drive. I didn't read the article completely, it's rather long, I just went to the conclusion. I'd assume they are comparing 5400 8meg cache drives to 7200rpm with 2meg cache because the price is relatively the same. --- End quote --- what I was tryin to say before is that I don't think there are 5400 RPM drives with 8 MB cache. the write up was probably on the Western Digital Special Edition drives, they're 7200 RPM with 8 MB cache, and as far as I know, the only IDE drives with 8 MB cache. as far as higher RPM drives, there are higher RPM drives all the way up to 15,000 RPMs, but IDE drives only go up to 7200 RPM so far. IDE is the only type of connection the vast majority of motherboards support today. the 10k RPM and 15k RPM drives have SCSI connectors. they're waaaay more expensive, typically only used in businesses. they are faster but also louder. if you have the money you can grab a SCSI PCI card ($20 for a cheap one, up to $100s or $1000s for a really good one) and buy a drive and throw it in pretty much any computer. |
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