🚀 go-pugleaf

" Miro" <miro01@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > " Miro" <miro01@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > > "Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > > news:bqnifj$24q680$1@ID-151056.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > > > In article <iAxzb.6666$t87.2004@nwrdny02.gnilink.net>,
> > > > "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:
> > > > >"Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote in message
> > > > >news:PYmdnfxD5JBSBFOiRVn-jA@comcast.com...
> > > > >| "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
> > > > >| news:zHwzb.21159$UG2.949@nwrdny03.gnilink.net...
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> > > > >| > Go RAID 5 and SCSI and you will not have the artificial
barriers
> > > > >| > of IDE hard disk controllers.  Plus you a very reliable and
very
> > > > >| > fast disk sub-system.
> > > > >|
> > > > >| That's ridiculous. A $900 computer and $1500 worth of disk.
> > > > >| 250GB works fine in a 4550.
> > > > >
> > > > >Except...
> > > > >
> > > > >You are not taking into account;   the importance of the data, the
> > > reliability
> > > > > factor and the sheer speed that RAID 5 provides.
> > > >
> > > > I can understand your enthusiasm for a RAID system that provides
data
> > > > redundancy, but do you need to run a SCSI system to do this?
> > > >
> > > > I have the impression from comments elsewhere in recent times that
> > > > modern IDE drives are perfectly adequate and SCSI is quite simply
> > > > over-priced, perhaps even over-rated, in comparison these days?
> >
> > > Lots of photographers run 100's of gigs and there
> > > is nothing they can do to keep it smaller. Digital Pro
> > > photography has been one application for RAID systems.
> >
> > Yes, but thats a separate issue to expensive SCSI RAID5.
> >
> > > Only a very elite number of IDE models have "enterprise" tags
> >
> > Mindless wanking. And a digital photographer is
> > nothing like a typical desktop system usage anyway.
> >
> > > - which means they are as close to bullet-proof
> > > as an IDE drive can be in 2003.
> >
> > Or its just more mindless wanking that
> > fools like you are stupid enough to buy.
> >
> > > Enterprise drives are nearly the same
> > > cost as decent SCSI drives anyhow.
> >
> > Yep, there are actually fools as stupid as you around.
> >
> > > It is simply that IDE works on more standard
> > > and less expensive motherboards.
> >
> > It is simply that anyone with a clue has noticed that IDE is the
> > only thing that makes any sense on personal desktop system.
> >
> > > SATA is another thing to look at. SATA Raid
> > > is now making a strong appearance.
> >
> > More wanking on those last two words.
> >
> > > As for the HD being more expensive than PC ......
> > > it used to be the other way around and back then the
> > > machines were nowhere as impressive as they are now.
> >
> > All completely and utterly irrelevant to how much sense
> > those numbers make today for personal desktop system.
> >
>
> You should be writing for Woody Allen ... except he uses the up-market
> phrase "masturbation"
>
> Are you sure you didnt go to a boarding school ?
>

I doubt he went to school much at all, one reason why he is trying to blind
us all with his boring and often inaccurate rhetoric that he uses to try to
cover up the fact that Rod is a sexually frustrated compulsive masturbator
that can't get it up without the use of sexual aids like Viagra.