Posts by lupin..the..3rd

FWIW, I had 8 GB of ram in my old video workstation. That was several years ago, an SGI Octane2. Video editing is probably the most system intensive task you can do on a computer. It requires loads of memory, loads of CPU power, and...

Quote: Originally Posted by bigtrouble77 Lol, maybe you should define the rules to your threads in the future so we don't offend you, heir lupin. No offense at all, in fact I agreed with both your comments...

Quote: Originally Posted by bigtrouble77 Not many people realize that those crap Promise and Highpoint SATA raid controllers are software raids with a hardware interface for configuration. I actually think those...

Tom's Hardware shows the Seagate 7200.2 as the fastest notebook drive available. But the Hitachi 200GB is not part of their comparison so it might be faster, who knows. http://www23.tomshardware.com/storage25.html

Just install whatever you want over top of it. Any OS will ask you to partition and format your drive during the installation process, effectively "uninstalling" whatever was previously there. Why do you want to...

I put together a Gentoo Linux compatibility page, here: http://home.earthlink.net/~george164...t/dv9500t.html and submitted it to linux-laptop.net

I put together a Gentoo Linux compatibility page, here: http://home.earthlink.net/~george164...t/dv9500t.html and submitted it to linux-laptop.net

yes.

Yeah, with hardware based RAID1, the write speeds should be about identical. I had heard rumors that Linux kernel-based software RAID was slow 'in general', but pleased to see that at least with RAID1, software RAID can be a nice...

Pleased to report that Gentoo is running perfectly on the dv9500t with all hardware and components working perfectly. See my post in the "notebooks and linux" forum. I'm even running the two internal disks in a RAID1 mirror. ...