Ways to speed up your computer....

[Geaney]

Back in the 80's I worked with a certain MoD contractor and their way of ensuring data was not retrievable from dead hard disks (mostly DEC RA81's) was to:
- write destructive data patterns across the platters, then
- put the disk through a large coil which generated an extremely strong magnetic field, then
- physically crush the disk drive, then
- put the crushed drive in secure offsite storage - forever.

For all I know there may still be a room full of them under lock and key. The project requirements normally required stable hardware specs for 30 years! Since no hardware manufacturer can commit to that, MoD had to buy 30 years worth of spare parts up front - nice little earner for the hardware suppliers!

I guess I'm up the high end of PC requirements so I just ordered one of these to get more speed from my main machine:

http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-revodri...s-ssd.html

Cheers, John

[Nick]

I guess I'm up the high end of PC requirements so I just ordered one of these to get more speed from my main machine:

http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-revodri...s-ssd.html

They are really very pricey - over 3 x the cost the of the Crucial cache (for the smallest of the OCZ RevoDrives) and 2.5 to 3x the cost of a similar sized normal (i.e. SATA-interfaced) SSD.

Do you really really need 130,000 IOPS and 800-1000GB/s transfer speeds? The only applications that I can think of that might require that are very high-end video processing and humungous database applications. OCZ themselves say that in practice the CPUs can't handle the throughput... even the extremely high-end commercial FX eCom servers (fabric-connected HP blades) I run as part of my day job have nowhere near that requirement...

EDIT: Just noticed that OCZ are now recommending a dedicated fan for any RevoDrive !

What's your application?

[Radio Fixer]

Exciting device though, not that I need it. Amazing that clever people are still coming up with new ways to go with PCs.

Now if I had an 8 chip processor and one of those, and an SSD how fast would it render my videos ... No! I musnt go there!

Gary