On Wed, June 26, 2013 01:29, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 25/06/2013 23:44, Mick wrote: >> On Tuesday 25 Jun 2013 21:59:20 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > > Unless that is, Dell's website is using the PR/Marketing definition of > what RAID is. By definition, no-one that ever reads this mailing list > can understand that definition
Got a direct link to that definition? :) >>> Don't stress about it, your question is on the order of magnitude of >>> wondering if 5 horses or 4 camels are better for carrying one paper bag >>> of groceries home from the supermarket. The truth is, the basket in >>> front of granny's bicycle is perfectly adequate, and probably faster >>> too >> >> LOL!! Will need to remember this one. >> So, you're saying that other than at compile time I won't notice the >> difference? > > You will notice the grunt those i7s can deliver when you start to do > this (sort of typical for mine...): > > 3 virtualbox vms running, 1 Windows for IE and Office > 30 tabs open in firefox > emerge world going on set to -j32 -l8 > 30-odd konsole tabs open, often more than half tailing a log file at > more than 200 lines a minute > the usual desktop apps (mail, skype, movie playing in one corner) > > I sort of just keep loading it up till I run out of things to leave > open, and never notice the difference. This is an 8 core i7 with 16G RAM > and 128G SSD - complete total overkill for any rational usage, even a > busy devops sysadmin - but we get good prices on the company corporate > account Can you give me the full speclist of your machine with the part-numbers? I am checking if a new machine will fit my budget and your workload looks similar to mine :) > It all comes down to what you really *need* as opposed to how much > techie-bling you *want* :-) The *need* versus *want* is always important to keep in mind. -- Joost
