Posts by Imperil

"The RAID-configurations not only do well in most stopwatch trials; they also 'feel' faster, reflecting an increase in the overall responsiveness of the system. When coming from a single Raptor WD740GD to two striped Raptor WD740GDs...

Quote: Originally Posted by Time-Pilot Read the chart above, numbers don't lie those are the same Raptor hard drives. Hey Time-Pilot why don't you post the link to the full article and all of the benchmarks...

Ouch looks like another lemon.. too bad by the time you get it back and checked it will be past the 30 day period to return the system.

Ugh I'm so glad we eBayed our junk Alienwares instead of sending them in for an upgrade.

dupe

Quote: Originally Posted by krullulon i hope you told the ebay bidders that the laptops were lemons... We plainly stated that on every single auction. We told exactly what was happening, and how Alienware was...

Quote: Originally Posted by Viper_29 Just curious how many botched systems have people been having? What steps are Alienware taking if you have a system that is basically a lemon? I bought two for our company,...

If I were you I would tell them that the system has not even been working for 30 days and that they should take it back for an upgrade to the 7700. It sounds like you got one of the botched 51m's (from which there were many including...

Wierd thats odd, because our company benchmarked it before buying all new workstations and there was a nice savings in using RAID. Sure maybe not for little home use, but for large projects built in larger more hungry applications it...

Odd.. when using Visual Studio, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator RAID0 makes a HUGE difference.