Phantasm66
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Anyone had any experience with some REAL POWER USER MACHINES ???
By this, I mean something more than your average joe has.... even if your average joe just bought his machine last week.
Some features of such machines might include some of the following (more than 1 or 2 I guess....) :
-Multiple hard drives, perhaps in some software or hardware RAID configuration....
-Large amounts of HDD space (like 1/4 TB or over ???)
-SCSI technology.
-Large amounts of RAM, say over 1GB or over??
-Latest graphics technology like Geforce 4, etc....
-Multiple network interfaces...
-Multiple PSUs for redundancy, or some kind of UPS solution....
-More than 3 removable media drives (i.e a cdrom drive and a dvd rom drive and and cd-rw drive and a DVD-rw drive and a digital tape drive???)
-You get the idea....
Please don't mention servers too much because that's cheating.... I am talking about very powerful high end workstations....
Something I was working with the other day has this, for example:
2 x Athlon MP 1800+ CPU
1 GB DDR-SDRAM PC2100
8x80GB SCSI Ultra hard disk drives in RAID Stripe set config.
Hot swappable removable drive bays
Geforce 3 Ti 200 Graphics card
1xAdaptec (I think) PCI RAID Controller card
2x Onboard Adaptec SCSI controller
2x Onboard 3Com Network interface
2x500W PSU (2nd is for redundancy....)
1xPIONEER DVD-RW Drive SCSI
1xTOSHIBA CD-ROM Drive SCSI
1xPLEXTOR CD-RW Drive SCSI
1xDigital tape Drive SCSI
This, as you can imagine, made a bit of a racket when it was switched on, what with 2 CPU fans, 2 exhaust case fans, 2 PSU fans, 8 hard drives, etc....
But it did totally rock. It installed Windows 2000 Advanced Server in like 3 minutes or something....
Please bare in mind, again, that this is a workstation and NOT a server, being for the purposes of mathetical calculations, computational experiments and so forth....
Present user already asking about upgrades, etc....
So, anybody got any rigs to add??? Pictures would be nice....
By this, I mean something more than your average joe has.... even if your average joe just bought his machine last week.
Some features of such machines might include some of the following (more than 1 or 2 I guess....) :
-Multiple hard drives, perhaps in some software or hardware RAID configuration....
-Large amounts of HDD space (like 1/4 TB or over ???)
-SCSI technology.
-Large amounts of RAM, say over 1GB or over??
-Latest graphics technology like Geforce 4, etc....
-Multiple network interfaces...
-Multiple PSUs for redundancy, or some kind of UPS solution....
-More than 3 removable media drives (i.e a cdrom drive and a dvd rom drive and and cd-rw drive and a DVD-rw drive and a digital tape drive???)
-You get the idea....
Please don't mention servers too much because that's cheating.... I am talking about very powerful high end workstations....
Something I was working with the other day has this, for example:
2 x Athlon MP 1800+ CPU
1 GB DDR-SDRAM PC2100
8x80GB SCSI Ultra hard disk drives in RAID Stripe set config.
Hot swappable removable drive bays
Geforce 3 Ti 200 Graphics card
1xAdaptec (I think) PCI RAID Controller card
2x Onboard Adaptec SCSI controller
2x Onboard 3Com Network interface
2x500W PSU (2nd is for redundancy....)
1xPIONEER DVD-RW Drive SCSI
1xTOSHIBA CD-ROM Drive SCSI
1xPLEXTOR CD-RW Drive SCSI
1xDigital tape Drive SCSI
This, as you can imagine, made a bit of a racket when it was switched on, what with 2 CPU fans, 2 exhaust case fans, 2 PSU fans, 8 hard drives, etc....
But it did totally rock. It installed Windows 2000 Advanced Server in like 3 minutes or something....
Please bare in mind, again, that this is a workstation and NOT a server, being for the purposes of mathetical calculations, computational experiments and so forth....
Present user already asking about upgrades, etc....
So, anybody got any rigs to add??? Pictures would be nice....