an FYI on the Dell Dimension 9200 @ TSW

Some folks we support picked up the Dell Dimension 9200 on special @
TSW. Turns out that it comes with...

''SATA RAID 0 With Dual 160GB 10000 RPM Hard Drives''

RAID 0 puts all of your eggs in one basket -- if one drive has a
problem, you lose the entire C:\ volume. You do gain a good increase
in write speed... which isn't too important to most users. It does
this at the cost of, if you like, "twice" the chance of a drive
failure killing your whole boot volume, which is probably a bit more
than most standard users have bargained for. Mirrored RAID might
arguably serve the typical user a bit better.

I called and chatted with a TSW sales rep, who is going to check in
with the Dell rep to see if this is what they intended to offer to
campus. In the meantime, I thought I'd toss this out to Micronet so
that if others are shopping for this special, they can be certain
about what they're getting.

-Greg

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Received on Wed Dec 13 2006 - 16:01:56 PST