[Techtalk] Asking for new PC recommended specs

[Julie]

David Merrill wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 September 2003 11:27 am, John White wrote:
>>The only thing on your list that jumped out at me
>>was the HDD. I'd go with 10K drives, even if you
>>have to give up a bit of capacity to stay under
>>budget. Now that 15K drives are out, you're no
>>longer paying as big a premium for 10Ks, and I've
>>found the difference between 10Ks and 7200s to be
>>noticeable.
> 
> 
> The vendor doesn't carry 10K SATA drives, alas.

Alas, I can't seem to find anyone who makes Really Big
Disks in anything other than 7200RPM speeds for less
than a jillion dollars.

Speaking of which, how reliable are LVM and ReiserFS?
I just added a 250MB Maxtor I'm planning to use with
them and want to know how paranoid I have to be about
the data disappearing ...
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