From: "Robert Comer" 

> I'm pricing out an Intel white box and looking at a couple of brand
> names as well. Mainly I was considering the drives for the white box.

SCSI drives, or is IDE good enough? (capacity/cost over speed)

> It's will be mostly for CAD files, which tend to be large and
> procreate at an astounding rate, hence I need a lot of capacity. And
> I'd love to be able to add capacity to an array without any stress on
> my part!

Get yourself an AS/400 with a RAID controller then. ;-)

- Bob Comer


"Richard B."  wrote in message
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> On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:26:57 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote:
>
> >I really like the IBM xSeries machines, not the cheapest, but very well
> >built.
>
> I'm pricing out an Intel white box and looking at a couple of brand
> names as well. Mainly I was considering the drives for the white box.
>
> It's will be mostly for CAD files, which tend to be large and
> procreate at an astounding rate, hence I need a lot of capacity. And
> I'd love to be able to add capacity to an array without any stress on
> my part!
>
> - Richard

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