Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 6:32 pm

Now my server is having issues..
For those of you who are tech and like this kind of crap here are the stats :

Dual Xeon 3.2Ghz
8 * 1 Gb of DDR 333 Ram – Dual Rank
4 Sata 74Gb WD Raptor Drives.

Problemo #1
Well you might wonder why I put the Dual Rank there.. well it seems the server class motherboard I have from super micro : X6DH8-G does not like more than 4 sticks of Dual Rank Ram.. why? I have no fucking clue and it appears no one can explain it to me either.. So I have posted to various forums in the hope that some geek will answer it for me.

Problemo #2 The fabulous 10,000 RPM raptor drive.. is slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.. yes its SATA.. Yes that means 150MB’s per second transfer.. well maybe in my dreams.. i clocked my raptor transferring a whopping 2.4 Mb per second on a write to the disk.. wow.. thats slower than IDE 33 from 5 years ago.. so after calling WD and getting on the phone they would love to tell me to run their diagnostics tool BUT I have 2003 Server and they dont have a diagnostics tool that works on that OS. Pardon?? They tout that raptors are for enterprises and speed demons and they dont have a tool that will work on a server operating system… Oh the joy of idiocy..



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