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On Wed, June 26, 2013 01:29, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 25/06/2013 23:44, Mick wrote: |
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>> On Tuesday 25 Jun 2013 21:59:20 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Unless that is, Dell's website is using the PR/Marketing definition of |
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> what RAID is. By definition, no-one that ever reads this mailing list |
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> can understand that definition |
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Got a direct link to that definition? :) |
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>>> Don't stress about it, your question is on the order of magnitude of |
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>>> wondering if 5 horses or 4 camels are better for carrying one paper bag |
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>>> of groceries home from the supermarket. The truth is, the basket in |
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>>> front of granny's bicycle is perfectly adequate, and probably faster |
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>>> too |
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>> LOL!! |
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Will need to remember this one. |
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>> So, you're saying that other than at compile time I won't notice the |
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>> difference? |
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> You will notice the grunt those i7s can deliver when you start to do |
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> this (sort of typical for mine...): |
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> 3 virtualbox vms running, 1 Windows for IE and Office |
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> 30 tabs open in firefox |
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> emerge world going on set to -j32 -l8 |
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> 30-odd konsole tabs open, often more than half tailing a log file at |
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> more than 200 lines a minute |
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> the usual desktop apps (mail, skype, movie playing in one corner) |
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> I sort of just keep loading it up till I run out of things to leave |
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> open, and never notice the difference. This is an 8 core i7 with 16G RAM |
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> and 128G SSD - complete total overkill for any rational usage, even a |
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> busy devops sysadmin - but we get good prices on the company corporate |
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> account |
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Can you give me the full speclist of your machine with the part-numbers? |
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I am checking if a new machine will fit my budget and your workload looks |
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similar to mine :) |
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> It all comes down to what you really *need* as opposed to how much |
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> techie-bling you *want* :-) |
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The *need* versus *want* is always important to keep in mind. |
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Joost |