I also recently purchased an Intel X-25M; I mostly do MS Access database development, and other Office apps, occasional AVCHD editing/transfers. I was using a pair of 300gb Velociraptors (still using them as supplemental drives) in raid0/ plus 2 other drives for backup.
The Intel is fast...
Just wondering if the following is do-able. I have two VRaptors in raid0,boot drive (on a Gigabyte UD3P mb, ICH10, Windows 7). I just ordered an Intel SSD that I would like to use as the boot drive and keep the existing raid array as my other drive (still in raid0, I have another drive for...
this will work fine-
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I've used one in a DFI pci slot that was just as fast as my Tyan (with PCI-X slot-66mhz) with the 15k Cheetah...
You're not...
I am using a Tyan Tomcat K8SH Opteron (skt 939) board with 1 PCI-X (64bit-133MHz) slot. I have an Opteron 175 on it, with 2 GB of PC3200DDR memory. It has an onboard graphics controller, but I use an Evga FX5200 (PCI 128mb) on it; it will work with Vista Aero (tried it), but I'm using XP pro...