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From: Marcos M. Zattar
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 21:54
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 21:54
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Hello! I am planning to buy a desktop from DELL and until yesterday I didn't have any doubt, I was up to the Dimension 8250. But then Dell launched a new model here in Germany, the 8300. It claims to be faster because it has the chipset 875P and 533/800 Mhz PSB. Besides, the RDRAM was replaced by the DDR. To make the choice more complicated, the 8300 is offered here in Germany with a regular hard-disk or optionally with a RAID couple instead (stripe or mirror, you choose). So here my questions: - How much is the increase in performance with the new chipset and RAM type? Is it worth spending those extra bucks for the newer version? - What are the advantages of a Serial-ATA harddisk compared to a regular EIDE harddisk? - It is said that RAID 1 (mirror) is safer regarding a possible disk failure and RAID 0 (stripe) is faster. How safer is RAID 1 and how faster is RAID 0? Is there really a considerable chance that in a RAID 0 system one of the disks fails, breaks or has a malfunction? In this case, is it true that you lose all your data? I would appreciate any comments that would help me decide which one to get. Bye! Marcos
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