Posted by nappy on 11/04/07 20:39

"nappy" <n@n.n> wrote in message
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> "Matt" <mttmrrsn_blablabla@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> "nappy" <n@n.n> wrote in message
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>>>I just built 25 of these for around $700 each. They rip. We pulled one
>>>out from the render farm and made it a workstation
>>>
>>> Asusw P5K-VM motherboards.
>>> Q6600 Intel Quad Core 2.4GHZ
>>> 2G DDR2-800
>>> 160G Sata Drive
>>> InWin MicroATX Case
>>>
>>> Add the low profile GeForce of your choice and a 500G Drive.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have a few of the Dual Quad Core Intel Mac Pro Machines (8 Xeons @
>>> 3GHZ) in our system and the little Asus units render at a little less
>>> than 2/3 as fast as the Intel Macs. Rather than 1/2 as I expected. So a
>>> pair of them at $1400 turned out to be a much better buy than the Macs.
>>>
>>> Macs are for sale BTW! If ya want one.
>>>
>>>
>> Is there any advantage in using the Western Digital 10,00RPM drives or
>> are SATA 300 drives in RAID 0 enough?
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> Just guessing here but I would think the RAID would be fine. When I setup
> our raid I set it up for just under 400M/Sec. So it works for everything.
>

ps.. I suspect that even at 10krpm the raid would be faster than a single
drive.

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