[dba-Tech] Everyone needs one or two

Hi Mark:

When I was working full-time I did installs for were for a number of bank
trading houses. 

As you moved up the ladder the more screen surfaces you got. Junior or the
new guy got one, senior guy got two, senior investor got three and the
office manager or the corporate investor got four. There was even a rack
mount grid for holding all the screens in a curved surround.

The only thing that was different was the video card. It had four separate
video ports then when you went into Windows screen properties setting there
were four monitors available. (I do not remember the video card name but it
was fairly common.) 

Then there was a USB splitter box that would attach to the video port. This
would just make the one video image across all the monitors attached but you
could just spread various application's components to top-left, right,
bottom-left and so on. 

Each solution had its on pluses and minuses. The first solution was more
difficult to install, cost about $800-$1500 but ran significantly faster,
supported any resolution...a ultra-gaming box(?) The second solution was
fairly inexpensive, about $100, was easy to setup but could be laggy and had
to sacrifice resolution.

Jim 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Breen
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 1:02 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Everyone needs one or two

Hello Gustav

I fully agree about the 1920 x 1200 however, most of the suppliers that I
look at nowadays no longer offer 1920 x 1200 resolution.  I am not sure why
but I am surprised about it.  We had 1200 height back in 1999.

Can I add one more item to the clapping hands list - dual or better again,
triple screens.


Mark




On 27 June 2013 08:20, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> Hi Jon
>
> They are most likely as unhappy with the situation as you are, and they
> don't manufacture the drives but buy them. So the interesting info would
> be:
> What drives?
>
> We have been running SSDs from both IBM, Kingston, and Intel without a
> single failure, half in servers, half in desktops. Lately we have settled
> with the Intel 520 series which are very fast and not that expensive.
>
> If you wish users clapping their hands, you have three options: Intel i5
or
> faster CPU, a fast SSD, and a screen of 24" or larger with 1920 x 1200
(not
> 1080) resolution or larger.
>
> /gustav
>
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Jon Tydda
> Sendt: 26. juni 2013 22:51
> Til: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] Everyone needs one or two
>
> I don't want to bias anyone against the manufacturer, but their name
sounds
> like Renovo... :-)
>
>
> Jon
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Peter Brawley
> Sent: 26 June 2013 20:33
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Everyone needs one or two
>
> On 2013-06-26 2:12 PM, Jon Tydda wrote:
> > Reliability has to vastly improve first. We bought 250 laptops with
> > SSDs three years ago at work, and we've replaced nearly 50 of the
> > drives under warranty.
> >
> > It could be that they don't like having Bitlocker encryption on them,
> > but I wouldn't buy one for my data drive just yet.
>
> Wow, 20% failure rate over 3 years ain't a good storage option!
>
> PB
>
>
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