Posted by Richard Crowley on 11/04/07 22:30

"nappy" wrote...
> "nappy"wrote ...
>> "Matt" wrote in...
>>> "nappy" wrote ...
>>>>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?
>>
>> 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.

But is your application I/O-bound? or CPU-bound?
(or something else?)

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