[svlug] linux system...

[Dagmar d'Surreal]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Rick Moen wrote:

> begin Dagmar d'Surreal quotation:
> 
> > ATA CDROM drives are still cheaper than SCSI ones, and that's the main
> > reason they do it.  
> 
> There's always a chance to shoot yourself in the foot by going cheap.
> 
> > Plus a CDROM tends to drag down the speed of the bus that it's on, so
> > if it's on a bus that isn't being used for anything else you don't
> > have to worry about that particular problem.  
> 
> I thought that went without saying.  You put all your slow devices on
> the slow-devices chain.
> 
> > I mentioned some stuff about RAM before, and here's the
> > rest.  Unfortunately no, "PC133" is not just a marketing term.
> 
> In theory, no.  In practice, yes.  The claimed performance isn't
> reliably usable.  You may _think_ that "CAS2" and "PC133" on the same
> advertisement item implies that it will reliably do CAS2 at 133 MHz, but
> check the overclocker sites and you'll find that this is not actually
> the case most of the time.  It's a (not very funny) joke.  In the real
> world, these claims just don't mean bupkes.

Heh.  ...the main reason for buying from a reputable vendor.  I stressed
over my RAM decision for quite some time, and wound up having a piece
shipped here, and then I shipped it to someone with a RAM tester and had
them check it out to be sure...  Thank goodness my next stick of 256Mb
won't cost that much.  :)

> My solution:  Use a RAM vendor whom you've found to be knowledgeable, 
> realiable, and not a shlockmeister -- or just buy from Mushkin.

MUSHKIN!  That's the name of the vendor I had in mind for getting RAM
from that I couldn't remember.  Good catch.  :)  They're actually even
in top 100 of online purchase sites that that particular advisory company
(can't remember their names either.  It's been a looong day) for checking
out online shops in advance puts out.  Very very good folks there.