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If you don't care about the intent of the study the guy did, then don't read it. Reading a study about primate hair coloration and then claiming that it "doesn't matter" and should have been about primate mating habits is a waste of time.

Besides, bang for the buck, if you're spending less than $10,000, -quality- IA32 hardware wins. Any honest person who does the numbers and doesn't let technosnobbery cloud his sight knows that -without- a big new study.

It sounds like you want to know what's good -above- that price range. Honestly, if you're quibbling over saving a couple thousand bucks on a machine that expensive, you either can't afford it or don't need it. This is why you don't see pricing information for E10k machines on Sun's web site. Nobody comparison shops for that stuff unless he's either too poor to buy it or else amazingly, painfully cheap. (Yes, there ARE corporate IT people who are that cheap. They pay for their foolishness daily, but they don't have to write up purchase orders for those expenses, so they seem happy. Let them eat cake...)

By the way, IDE on motherboard controllers isn't quite the same beast as if you buy a decent one, and a decent one is still damned cheap. Yes, for large disk arrays, SCSI still has an edge. However, talking about large disk arrays on commodity hardware is an indication that you are either clueless or like wasting money.

Actually, what you're referring to is writing to multiple disks on the same cheapo integrated IDE controller, but seeing as your tone suggests that you're repeating something you heard somewhere but never bothered to really check out for yourself, I'm guessing you didn't even know there WERE any others.

And yes, you -can- hear the difference with vinyl. Every scratch, every imperfection in the pressing, every extra bit of hiss added by the mechanical nature of the system. Some "audiophiles" are stupid enough to think that the last of those is "warmth" or some similar attribute that they claim CDs don't have. It is true that CDs don't sound like records - because they're an -accurate- reproduction instead of a shoddy approximation. However, I realize that there are people out there who've built hobbies, careers, and even egos out of denying this fact, and that they are not going to change their minds just because reality disagrees with them. In some cases, it is a sense of "the good old days," in some cases, a desire to maintain a feeling of elitism(the obnoxious part of "audiophiles," to be sure,) and in some cases, it is merely a desire to seem "interesting" or "different." Adherents of such religions are probably interesting to sociologists, but I'm sick of them, myself.

Linux -does- have some performance problems, as Linus will readily admit. Only in the recent
development kernels are they starting to get a
system that handles heavy load well, and there are still problems to be resolved. Yes, I think they'll resolve them. Even though I'm a BSD guy, I -hope- they resolve them. I think we all benefit when there are as many high quality systems available as possible.

That's a point that seems to be lost on many people. Free software may be a competition of sorts, but it is not an economic competition. You don't "beat" the next guy by putting him out of business, and your continued survival is not at stake if someone else's code is better at one particular test than yours as of right now - so why do so many advocates sound like Baptist missionaries, out to save your soul? Really, really lame.

In tradition of replying to my own
posts: I've solved that, thanks

/Alex