1st Non-Handmade computer ever - MAC Pro

[viking396]

Because hardware is NOT faster. Hardware RAID will allow you to abstract the OS and provide BB caching, as well as some proprietary RAID variants, but don't be fooled into thinking it's about speed gains. If you are serious about speed you would be looking at a pair of QLogic cards and a small SAN.

If you want to continue and buy a RAID card thats your choice. Just be clear in your understanding of what you are gaining.

We can debate/argue the point, in my experience hardware is faster, I haven't read that it's faster (obviously I have read articles, but this isn't my point) I have run both and found this to be the case. There are other reasons why hardware is better and you mention a few. But we can agree to disagree on it.

I am serious about speed to the point my wallet will allow, unfortunately it's on fire now as it is after buying the Mac Pro, 8 more gigs of memory, four V/Raptors and two 27" Dell monitors.

And soon, I hope, a decent RAID card.

 

[viking396]

I recently made a post somewhere, and apologize if it was to you.

If you're considering the CalDigit, consider the Accusys line. They are the OEM supplier for CalDigit, and offer more choices in ports and speed (61100 series). Unlike the CalDigit where you must use the HDElement, you can use other enclosures.

Currently, they can be found at newegg.
If you only plan to use 4 internal drives, look at this model, as it's only $280USD for the same performance and design. For a savings of $220 to $240USD, it would be worth it.

Hope this helps.

I believe you did mention it and I thank you for the info, it will come in very handy. Thanks!

 

[viking396]

Ok, the memory is installed (10gigs total) so I'm trying out different applications in both Leopard and Vista 64.

Impressions of "feel" in Leopard, still not feeling much faster than my MacBook Air. Excel and Word are just plain slow, I'm told this is the norm, but honestly, not impressed. Other applications seem ok, but over all not impressed, not feeling the snap other people claim to be there. Maybe I'm just used to Windows OS's, not sure but this should rock the house, click, snap, open, instant, but it isn't.

On to Vista 64.

Everything opens instantly, I mean the second my finger makes a click, it opens. Doesn't matter which application, all open instantly except for Adobe Premier Elements 4.0, I don't care what you run Adobe products on, they take time to open.

So, I may get some flames for this but right now I give the feel edge to Vista 64. No drive thrashing at all with 10gigs installed. Leopard still thrashes the disk when opening anything.

I'm going to go on an open everything rampage in both OS's and see which one goes belly up first....

I need to get that RAID card and VelociRaptors here.....