PC For ASP.NET web development

Izi · 28 Nov 2009 at 11:13

I need a PC for web development.

I need to have the highest disk read / write possible, but don't want to spend huge money.

I have £500 to spend, dont need monitors / keyboard / mouse - just the bare box.

What do you recommend?

95thrifles · 28 Nov 2009 at 19:48

Somethign like this, put the 4 HDD's in RAID 10

Coolermaster Sileo 500 Silent Case - Black (500w Extreme Power Plus PSU) £79.99 (£69.56)
AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 620 2.60GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £79.99 (£69.56)
Corsair 4GB (2X2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMV4GX3M2A1333C9) £72.99 (£63.47)
Asus M4A785TD-V Evo AMD 785G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £70.99 (£61.73)
4 x Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD5001AALS) £42.99 (£37.38) £171.96 (£149.52)
Sony Optiarc AD-7240S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.99 (£16.51)
Total : £494.90

Izi · 28 Nov 2009 at 19:49

will 4 disks like that be better than a single raptor?

95thrifles · 29 Nov 2009 at 10:17

A raptor would have better access times, but this set up would have better read/writes, plus you're also getting drive redundancy which helps protect data against drive failiure

Izi · 29 Nov 2009 at 13:22

95thrifles said:
A raptor would have better access times, but this set up would have better read/writes, plus you're also getting drive redundancy which helps protect data against drive failiure

the programming I do is compiled code. I.E it takes 500 files and compiles them in to one dll.

In this circumstance, I wonder if the access time would be more key as lots of access quickly to small files is required.