If money wasn't an issue.........

[thirdfey]

Hey all,

If money wasn't an issue and you wanted THEE harddrive. My company needs some storage space and money ain't da problem. I'm looking for speed over capacity (I don't won't all the eggs in one basket so i'll get a bunch of baskets if need be) so anyone got some model numbers for me. Didn't someone just come out with 15,000 RPM SCSI. Also, what else would you put in this system? Mainboard? Processor? Sound? Video (Dual monitor supporting if possible)? RAM brand? Case? DVD? Big *#@$ing Monitor? Again, the whole money not an issue and this system would be a gaming/server/graphics/all around fun system on your desk. What would you put in it that is possible to do today that can be purchased component by component. Help a person making thee dream machine. SOrry all, can't tell you the company and there are no job openings :-( Because I want to work there, this is for a friend.

Tony

[BadCache]

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1283&p=2

This is the dream system

[jasonflorida1]

R.A.I.D is the way to go, dual Xeon, 512MB+ Ram

[gandalf2k]

I would wait three or four weeks until pentium 4 is released to the public I have been benchmarking the p4 for the last 3 weeks and belive me this is fast!!!!!
As for the motherboard I use a supermic duel processor with rdram

[gizmo1_1]

Raid !!! is the answer. The more spindles you use. the faster the read and write. Price not a problem. Intel 840 Main board Dual processor w 512MB Rdimm



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[MokeyJoe]

Money is no issue huh? Well here is my suggestion. Compaq 8000!!! Please don't cringe because I said that nasty C word (Compaq), I have maintained over 30 Compaq servers from the 2500 to the 8000 models. Unlike their desktop/workstation machines, they are solid. Since redundancy seems to be a large factor, this is a good machine for you. It holds up to 21 drives and has redundant array controllers. Not to mention it can handle up to 8 P III Xeon 700's, and up to 16GB of RAM. Granted you can easily spend between 75 & 100K (ouch!)

[thirdfey]

very cool suggestions people. i'm not sure what the deadline is for the system to be built so i don't know about the p4's. i agree with the intel mainboard, intel has always had solid mainboards except for that 820/sdram problem. plus the customer service is great and rma turnaround. i will look into that supermicro though. thanks all and keep the suggestions going. the system is limited to dual processor though and they want huge hard drives( like 50gig or more). i don't make the specs, i just try to find the hardware to fulfill the specs.

thanks again,
tony

[lysergic]

Supermicro SUPER S2DG2 dual xeon mobo with raid port card
2 2meg cache PIII700 Xeons
2 gigs of ram
6 X15 18gig cheetah harddrives in a raid 0+1 config
scsi cd and cdrw (or DVD/DVD RAM)
pinnacle DV2000 video editing system
Matrox G400MAX (a little old, but works great with the pinnacle cards)
Veiwsonic VG-180 flat screen (18") and a Sony GDM-W900 (24")
SB Live plantnum
Supermicro SC850W ATX case
3comm Etherlink server 10/100 server w/ 3XP processor (or just go gigabit ethernet)

With a few exceptions (3 less harddrive at only 10k and a few other changes describes a system got to build not too long ago. Boy was it fun to play with)