Re: a good PC?



"Michael A. Terrell" wrote:

John Larkin wrote:
Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Have you considered drives in caddies btw ?

I do like the idea of buying a system that just works when you plug it
in, and a RAID setup that comes working with all the utilities and
whatever it needs, and with support. Alienware will apparently set
everything up and then furnish a system disk image on a DVD, so you
can always restore the system to its exact as-shipped state, after
Windows eventually punches enough holes into itself.

It looks like there is no standard packaging for hot-swap drives, just
a number of different plug-in adapters that the actual drive fits
into. Is that a caddie?

This is so annoying. A computer is supposed to be a tool, not a
project.

John

Some people like these servers:
<http://www.chilisystems.com/index.jsp>

Several computer techs around here remove a lot of those $20 drive
caddies because if intermittent hardware problems. One shop gave me a
box full they had removed to make systems more stable.

Fancy that ! I just bought a couple of caddies. I wouldn't use them for the primary drives though.

Graham

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