My............Dream..........

My dream is to get a computer with the following spec:

Server motherboard, with 8 processor slots.

8x Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processors, 2.4GHz.

64GB Error-checking and Correcting RAM.

4x 500GB 7200RPM Nested RAID 0-0 HDs, with a total space of 2TB, and a total speed of the equivalent of 28800RPM.

4x ATi FireGL 7350 Graphics cards, 1GB, 512 Bit, with a 22" monitor for each one (yes four monitors)

Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound.

Software: Windows Vista Enterprise (or maybe Mac OSX), Adobe/Macromedia Web Studio and Video Studio; Cinema4D, probably many more things, too.

And all of that is possible, if not rather expensive. It would probably cost about £55000-£65000, i think ($100000-$120000 USD).

My dream is better than yours.

All that stuff is possible NOW. I've found it all, in various places on the internet.

I can never remember the sites, but ive seen a package that comes with the motherboard, 4GB ram, and 2 of those processors, but has the space for all the rest of it.

The graphics card is here: http://www.ati.com/products/fireglv7350/index.html

500GB HDs are reaily available now, ive seen them on a supplier i use sometimes.

Ive just looked at the servers i would have, and most have 18 hard disk slots, so i would have one 4-layer nested tower of RAID0, and one of single RAID0. In the operating system, it will look like two hard drives, one of 8000GB, and the other of 1000GB



In that diagram, every 0 is a hard drive, and every + is where data is split, using a raid controller, effectively doubling the speed. The C is the computer.

Wow, that thing is HOTT!