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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (2835)	10/9/1998 11:31:00 AM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Dave I see no reason at all for a fancy SCSI setup As i said to Sean, these crits of my proposal are highly valued by me. I just wanted to let you know that as well, and extend my gratitude. I came upon the SCSI solution for the primary HDD only to stay within the IBM family of drives at a capacity less than 10 gigs @ the 7200 rpm speed. The less then 10gig reasoning was based on the need for the KOT drive to be larger than the primary thus putting me at capacities FAR outside my needs and pocketbook. The smaller SCSI models solved this capacity catch-22 so I thought I'd run with the idea and see how it played out. The threads recent discussion of this proposal has convinced me to not use a 7200rpm primary drive. Thus illeviating the need for it to be SCSI. Although this little side trip into the land of mixed interfaces, mobo bios modifications and SCSI host adapters has enthused me to definitely fiddle with this kind of enviroment in the future on another machine. A fiddlers machine.. yea.. thats the ticket. But for now, you all have convinced me to stay focused on my core purpose for this new machine (daytrading) and not dilute it with misplaced enthusiasms which are better left for another machine where they can do no harm and fulfill any experimental needs as they arise. As this trading setup also includes my MAc for irc.email, and quicken I'll also be upgrading it (with money not spent on SCSI and superfast drives) to faster CPU and more ram... its a 7100 PowerMac running at only 80 mhz now. So I thank you once again, Dave, for being so sincere with your evaluation. It has helped me not only with staying focused on the purpose of this one machine but with realising how important that 'machine purpose focus' is. Your comments have also lead me to formulate a better overall planning strategy for machines in the future. Sorry to get all abstract and philisophical, here, but as a novice PC user I'm building needed attitudes and opinions for myself (along with this new machine) Stay well Clarence