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SAS drives on ASUS P6T RAID 0 Benchmark

Dec 7, 2008 by Paul White

SAS 15K drives mounted in full towerI finally got my new workstation up and running. I will post some photos of the actual unit soon.  But for now I wanted to share these bench marks with everyone.  No need to get a dedicated RAID card, the build in SAS RAID support from the ASUS P6T x58 motherboard gets the job done just fine.
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New Core I7 workstation ordered

Nov 25, 2008 by Paul White

I finally picked out what components I wanted in my new workstation.  Read more to see the complete list of components.  Should get here by Dec 1st if not earlier.  Once its here I will do a few bench marks, and report my findings.

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Time to build a new workstation using intel's new I7

Nov 12, 2008 by Paul White

full tower case
Finally the time has come.  My workstation has served me well for the past 5 years, but with the increasing workload I put it through its time to upgrade.  Learn the full details of I feel now is great time to make the move to the intel i7.

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