[quote author=“DayWalker”]best practices

OS Install

a) SCSI 10,000 or 15000RPM straight or RAID 0 x 2

b) SATA 10,000 or 7200RPN straiught or RAID 0 x 2

DATA

a) SCSI RAID x 1

b) SATA RAID x 1

None of these would fit my silent and cool PC that I was trying to make. The only thing this would satisfy is speed.

Erik

hitachi 1” IDE hard drives CFII type.

Fast enough for a disk and a OS, 2000 for example. It is not a CF card, but has a CF interface. It has a mini IDE controller on it and will function as a disk and because it is SPINNING, it will do better on access, and the rest of it.

[quote author=“DayWalker”]if the electron is a wave or a particle ...

It’s actually neither a wave or a particle, it just has properties of both depending on the situation :ph34r:

Technically speaking DayWalker is correct, the current flash memory isn’t going to replace the spindle and disk, nor run the operating system. But as George Carlin says; “just wait awhile”. Future laptops won’t even have as much as a fan moving around inside, and the few remaining metal parts (except those needed to conduct) will be replaced with plastic. Your grand kids will never know of a time when a computer wasn’t completely solid state, just as many here now have never played an LP or held a vacuum tube. Ok now I’m really dating myself. Gawd I remember tube testers in the grocery stores.  :shock:

I am totally for 3d holgraphic memory. In 30-40 years. It will be all that. Althoug, still moving parts http://www.holodisks.com/ Pure physics .. even if they come up with 1terabyte solid state .. the optics and the optical hard drives will be still bigger and faster

3d holographic memory? Screw that. I want a 3d holographic girlfriend. all the benefits, and then, bam! turn her off when she wants to cuddle!

~nox

hey, keep it PG13 we got minors.

Irony anyone :shock:

Irony anyone :shock: