What Computer Are You Running

[rob]

Run a basic Dell which I change every year once the cogs stop turning so fast. Saves fannying about reinstalling things. Keep it simple, thats my motto.

Agreed- I used to buy my own bits and build things, however really cannot be bothered anymore as its less and less useful.

Currently on dell quad core something xps - has lots of grunt but I am doing the same stuff really when it boils down to it that I was doing on a p200 mmx ;-)

It does have a 2" screen in the actual tower though which is a little wierd.

Currently looking at the dell tablet thing they do as I miss having one of those

Gadget mania, expensive hobby but always good to fiddle with stuff to form views on what works and what doesnt.

 

[Skinner]

hey Paul, I'm glad I'm not the only geek thats ears pricked up on the SSD

Also good to see lots of fellow dell users, their business warranty and support has been brilliant, so many people slated them when I took the site package with them, but 90% of the techs never bother taking the replaced parts and always leave extras so I have a mountain of spare parts.

Rob the 2" screen is for system stats one of my old ones had that, it shows hard drive used/free, processor usage, temps, amps etc, mine never bloody worked properly tho Does yours have the silly equilizer bar screen saver thing ?

 

[Edwin]

thats insteresting do you use your 64GB SSD for the system drive to run your OS on edwin

Yes, exactly. I have XP and apps on the SSD, and all data on one or other of the HDDs (which all back each other up twice, i.e. I have 3 copies of any given piece of data - as well as an off-site backup via an online service in the USA).

I picked the fastest SSD on the market at the time I bought it, the Mtron MSP-SATA7035 (a drive they market as an "Enterprise" drive rather than one aimed at the mass market). There are probably faster SSDs now, but at the time it was about 50% ahead of any competing drive.

I also use a different SSD drive as a portable external drive for my laptop - I only store the apps on my laptop's HDD, but no data at all, that way if it gets stolen from my hotel room all I lose is the machine (the SSD screwed into a 2.5" case is light enough that I can slip it into my bag and carry it everywhere).

 

[rob]

Rob the 2" screen is for system stats one of my old ones had that, it shows hard drive used/free, processor usage, temps, amps etc, mine never bloody worked properly tho Does yours have the silly equilizer bar screen saver thing ?

It does, and you can play solitaire on it! Very odd

 

[Paullas]

Yes, exactly. I have XP and apps on the SSD, and all data on one or other of the HDDs (which all back each other up twice, i.e. I have 3 copies of any given piece of data - as well as an off-site backup via an online service in the USA).

I picked the fastest SSD on the market at the time I bought it, the Mtron MSP-SATA7035 (a drive they market as an "Enterprise" drive rather than one aimed at the mass market). There are probably faster SSDs now, but at the time it was about 50% ahead of any competing drive.

I also use a different SSD drive as a portable external drive for my laptop - I only store the apps on my laptop's HDD, but no data at all, that way if it gets stolen from my hotel room all I lose is the machine (the SSD screwed into a 2.5" case is light enough that I can slip it into my bag and carry it everywhere).

ill be spending the afternoon researching this now, thanks

 

[Skinner]

I also use a different SSD drive as a portable external drive for my laptop - I only store the apps on my laptop's HDD, but no data at all, that way if it gets stolen from my hotel room all I lose is the machine (the SSD screwed into a 2.5" case is light enough that I can slip it into my bag and carry it everywhere).

Edwin look into

16gb Drive powered off MicroSD Class 2.

 

[Edwin]

USB style drives are just too slow to work off, I'd rather have my SSD which reads and writes at 120Mbps. http://www.memoright.com/en/showpro.asp?id=236&lb=5

 

[purg]

Work is a Toshiba T5600 (1.8GHz 1Gb ram) thats basicaaly a dumb terminal to the larger machine.

IBM 2094 S18
CPUs = 3
Memory = 128Gb

Home has an IBM P133 dev. apache webserver & torrent download machine running Gentoo. Seldom patched due to compile time, takes 4 days to compile base LAMP system. Everyday machine is an old Dell x64 laptop.

 

[retired_member32]

it really surprises me that most are still using the windows xp......

the vista is a right old lump,and it updates much too frequently

mark

 

[ratboy]

I spec'd mine WITH XP after having a play in PC World with Vista, horrid thing. Couldn't be arsed with it. Think Microsoft feels the same way

 

[retired_member27]

Reading these posts I feel kind of left out. Although I'm a software engineer by trade, I'm absolutely the last person ever to buy the latest gadget or even upgrade. I've got the philosophy that if it works leave it.

My computer is a P4 1.5GHz and I've only just upgraded from Win98 to WinXP about 8 months ago, I have all the usual LAMP software for work on it and never play games or download anything so I just don't need the power.

My phone believe it or not is a 10 year old Nokia 8210 which always amazes people when I whip it out. For music I still use my Sony Minidisc player.

 

[Whois-Search]

Thermaltake

I currently have a massive thermaltake (full tower) chassis so I can keep changing bits:

Welcome to Thermaltake

Very easy to take things in and out - even if its the size of a fridge.

Though I haven't pimped it like this yet:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/Sarkast/DSC02246_E02.jpg

 

[tifosi]

Reading these posts I feel kind of left out. Although I'm a software engineer by trade, I'm absolutely the last person ever to buy the latest gadget or even upgrade. I've got the philosophy that if it works leave it.

My computer is a P4 1.5GHz and I've only just upgraded from Win98 to WinXP about 8 months ago, I have all the usual LAMP software for work on it and never play games or download anything so I just don't need the power.

My phone believe it or not is a 10 year old Nokia 8210 which always amazes people when I whip it out. For music I still use my Sony Minidisc player.

Ditto. I've even got a new vista laptop that I've not used - still using the old acer workhorse and my phone weighs a ton and only does one thing - it rings when someone wants to speak to me!

Even got an old 486 for my linux box, though that's starting to be an issue with the new distros.

S
(ludite!)

 

[tifosi]

p200 mmx ;-)

Ah, the good old days!

S

 

[charlie]

DELL throughout

XPS 1530 laptop - 500GB + 4GB RAM
DIMENSION 8200 - 1TB + 4GB
POWER EDGE SC240 1TB + 3GB

storage is a indication of a dubious past involving FTPs :evil:

 

[Darren]

storage is a indication of a dubious past involving FTPs :evil:

Involved in the scene once were we?

 

[Skinner]

My storage is an indicatation of *clears throat*, ummm clients sending me Raw HD Video at around 800mb-1gb a minute so I get 500gb hard drives shipped with 4 or so hours of video and still images on them heh.

I'm into double figure TBs now i think.

I wish it was as easy as dubious ftp use

 

[charlie]

Involved in the scene once were we?

yeah think i was a furbie or something at one point!
long since gone - luckily torrents have killed off the art of running at ftp

 

[droid]

The silent route for me too with the bare minimum of components.
As I ran an IT diagnostic/component company til recently I find the less there is in it the less there is to fail.

Silverstone SG03 Case
Core 2 Duo E6600
Corsair PSU HX520
Samsung spinpoint 250Gb HDD
NT06 Nitrogen Cooler
2 x 120mm Noctua Fans on 1/4 voltage
2Gb Corsair
Win XP

Just about audible in a quiet room

Just had a Vaio T5800 with Vista - very pleased with that too.

Ahem, now for my spare (left over)PCs:

2 x XTs
6 x 286/386s
30 (ish) Pentium 3s
70 (ish) Compaq Evo P4s
Enough parts to make 50 more probably !

Gary

 

[Skinner]

Has anyone 'modded' their cases ?

I tried this once, pissed me right off with flashing lights and stuff. All the littke blue/green/red LEDs on all the external harddrive caddys piss me off too.