Re: [gentoo-user] Intel SRT + SSD + SATA

[J. Roeleveld]

On Wed, June 26, 2013 01:29, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 25/06/2013 23:44, Mick wrote:
>> On Tuesday 25 Jun 2013 21:59:20 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>
> Unless that is, Dell's website is using the PR/Marketing definition of
> what RAID is. By definition, no-one that ever reads this mailing list
> can understand that definition

Got a direct link to that definition? :)

>>> Don't stress about it, your question is on the order of magnitude of
>>> wondering if 5 horses or 4 camels are better for carrying one paper bag
>>> of groceries home from the supermarket. The truth is, the basket in
>>> front of granny's bicycle is perfectly adequate, and probably faster
>>> too
>>
>> LOL!!

Will need to remember this one.

>> So, you're saying that other than at compile time I won't notice the
>> difference?
>
> You will notice the grunt those i7s can deliver when you start to do
> this (sort of typical for mine...):
>
> 3 virtualbox vms running, 1 Windows for IE and Office
> 30 tabs open in firefox
> emerge world going on set to -j32 -l8
> 30-odd konsole tabs open, often more than half tailing a log file at
>  more than 200 lines a minute
> the usual desktop apps (mail, skype, movie playing in one corner)
>
> I sort of just keep loading it up till I run out of things to leave
> open, and never notice the difference. This is an 8 core i7 with 16G RAM
> and 128G SSD - complete total overkill for any rational usage, even a
> busy devops sysadmin - but we get good prices on the company corporate
> account

Can you give me the full speclist of your machine with the part-numbers?
I am checking if a new machine will fit my budget and your workload looks
similar to mine :)

> It all comes down to what you really *need* as opposed to how much
> techie-bling you *want* :-)

The *need* versus *want* is always important to keep in mind.

--
Joost