[dba-Tech] Desktop recommendation

I picked up on it late and probably never read the original email. Some people think that getting a faster cpu is the cure for everything, when sometimes all you really need is faster I/O. 

What I noticed that was mentioned was the need for zippy local query performance

By rolling your own, you do keep costs down. Compare what you can build a high end machine for to what that machine will cost at Dell. Not to mention all of the garbage that Dell loads on a new system. If you can get the equivalent components in a system from Dell. And I don't think that my Antec Sonata case is ugly. 
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> From: "Bobby Heid" <bheid at appdevgrp.com>
> Date: 2004/10/20 Wed AM 10:14:36 EDT
> To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'"
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> Subject: RE: RE: [dba-Tech] Desktop recommendation
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> The gist that I got from the original email is that he was trying to keep
> costs down.  That is why I did not mention the more expensive (and faster)
> drives.
> 
> Bobby
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> One thing that I haven't heard anyone mention today is using SATA 10,000 RPM
> drives. The WD 10,000 RPM drive that I installed in a system really seemed
> to make a difference and they aren't that expensive, and most new main
> boards already have a SATA controller on board. Computers have been I/O
> bound since time immemorial.
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