Serge Posted December 26, 2011 Report Share Posted December 26, 2011 My best laptop is an HP 8560 32gb ddr3 RAM 2 Intel 600gb SSDs in RAID 0 making 1.2tb Core i7 2.5ghz quad core hyperthreaded I run 20 Windows 7 virtual machines and a domain environment of server VMs (23 total) for large scale deployment demos and it doesn't lag at all. First machine I've ever owned that maxes out all of the winsat scores except for GPU - even that is 7.6 out of 7.9. Great workhorse laptop. But man, you spent as much on those SSDs as the laptop is worth! Must be screaming. IPS screen option? Curious as to how you setup RAID 0 with your SSDs. The biggest thing against RAID on SSDs is that it works against the built in wear-leveling (ala TRIM), with these Intel SSDs (if using Intel RST) I believe that it turns off TRIM support. Which means it defaults to the internal garbage collection? Not sure if that's positive, but I'm guessing it would do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exexpat Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 Great workhorse laptop. But man, you spent as much on those SSDs as the laptop is worth! Must be screaming. IPS screen option? Curious as to how you setup RAID 0 with your SSDs. The biggest thing against RAID on SSDs is that it works against the built in wear-leveling (ala TRIM), with these Intel SSDs (if using Intel RST) I believe that it turns off TRIM support. Which means it defaults to the internal garbage collection? Not sure if that's positive, but I'm guessing it would do that. Don't think so. These SSDs have not yet started to fall off like other SSDs I have killed in RAID (Kingston 512gb units). I'm on month three and abuse them pretty badly. If they get bad or slow, i will replace them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagabond Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 Most Stickers + LEDs = I have the faster computer on VS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InitialDriveGTR Posted December 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 Don't think so. These SSDs have not yet started to fall off like other SSDs I have killed in RAID (Kingston 512gb units). I'm on month three and abuse them pretty badly. If they get bad or slow, i will replace them. I can't get my head around replacing SSD's like that lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyROTech Posted December 28, 2011 Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 I can't get my head around replacing SSD's like that lol i guess this is what a warranty is for? 3 years is decent, if not 5 for his drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InitialDriveGTR Posted December 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 I had a Intel SSD die due to a "8MB Bug" where if you lost power without shutting down the SSD would mess up and only report 8MB to the bios. Fortunantly I had made an image of it a couple days prior and saved most of my work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InitialDriveGTR Posted December 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 Got my UV cold cathodes and re-wrapped all the cabling in UV blue. Edit: the top lamp is now hidden too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caanglin Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 ^Pretty sure I have the same psu. Thermaltake TR2 RX? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyROTech Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 i want to savagely beat the person who installed bright leds (one white, one blue) on my motherboard that you cant turn off. Ohhh, and ill use the ripped off limbs from the guy who made the case with what appears to be a flashlight led on the front, to beat the motherboard guy. I dont mind the look of leds for the case, but they must be red. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldebaran Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 LOL, I painted my Lexan side panels black so the innards are hidden from view. Everything you buy these days have LEDs in them, fans, powersupplies, motherboards... Then it illuminates the dust bunnies inside the case. Then no matter how tidy you try to make it, PC's always end up looking like a hot mess inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InitialDriveGTR Posted December 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 LOL, I painted my Lexan side panels black so the innards are hidden from view. Everything you buy these days have LEDs in them, fans, powersupplies, motherboards... Then it illuminates the dust bunnies inside the case. Then no matter how tidy you try to make it, PC's always end up looking like a hot mess inside. Nahhh it's all about management. and use filters on the intake fans. as long as there is no dust inside to begin with, and you don't let any in, it stays clean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldebaran Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Yeah, yours look clean. Back in the day with IDE/ATA cables...oh what a nightmare! Thumbs up for SATA.I ended up doing this to my Lexan panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InitialDriveGTR Posted December 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Yeah, yours look clean. Back in the day with IDE/ATA cables...oh what a nightmare! Thumbs up for SATA. I ended up doing this to my Lexan panel. That looks really good. and what is that to the right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldebaran Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 It's a Yamaha preamplifier and DSP. It has a bunch of inputs (USB, Optical, Line) to hook up a few of computers for sound playback. Yamaha DP-U50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldebaran Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 The Lexan panel also doubles as my Post-It notes wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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