My sandra results...

[Riptide]

Thought I'd follow up the ATTO results w/a sandra score if you care...

[madthumbs]

:eek: Whew!.... How many gigs, and how many $$'s?

[Smokey]

Very nice, Im not even going to test my old ata66 hdd :p

When Im ready to upgrade my hdd, Ill come looking for you for advice ;)

[Riptide]

Originally posted by madthumbs
:eek: Whew!.... How many gigs, and how many $$'s?
Two 36GB drives striped for a total of 72gb. $640 worth of drives and another $240 on the controller.

SATA RAID 0 is competitive and can be had for a lot less $$$$. I just wanted to make sure I had the fastest thing out there right now, though PCI32 is holding me back.

[Dazz]

You are spoilt rotten...... i wish i was you :D

[Riptide]

Dazz, if it's any consolation I still have to pay for it. And when you only make 30K a year you can see how that purchase might not be a very good use of my available fundage. Some would say extravagant, actually...

One of these days I'll grow up and start handling my finances like I should. I'm trying to keep it off as long as I can though... ;)

[ragejg]

then there's those of us stuck @ 19k a year... hmph... :)

IDE RAID fer me... need another maxtor ATA-133 40gb...

though I do have 2 10k cheetah's (18gb) and a DPT rackmount controller I have yet to test... :D

[Hawk]

Nice Riptide. . . . ;)

[stncttr908]

Nice, but unless you're running a server, I have to question why?

[Riptide]

I work with some large files fairly often. Rip DVDs and then compress them. The extra speed helps a bit there. Boot times and load times have also been reduced noticeably. Was it worth that much money? No. Did I get a noticeable speed increase? Yes. Kinda comes down to one of those "If money was no object.." type of things. In my case, money was an object and I shouldn't have done this since I couldn't afford it. But oh well, I'll just have to exercise a bit more restraint in the future.

The array does rock though. :D