I'm Building a $200 Linux Desktop

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Sun, 4/12/09, Charlie Kravetz <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com> wrote:

> From: Charlie Kravetz <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com>
> Subject: Re: I'm Building a $200 Linux Desktop
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 2:00 PM
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:54:33 +0200
> Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Evans Jahja
> > <smkururu at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Patton Echols wrote:
> > > If you DO want to make a good performance, high
> end desktop, use
> > > lots of SSD and RAID them, they'll give you
> very good speed and
> > > storage,but you'll need the alternate version
> of ubuntu, if you use
> > > ubuntu.
> > >
> > Can you tell us more about this?  How much does it
> cost VS a HD? How
> > fast is it VS a HD? Why do you need the alt CD (for
> raid??)?
> > 
> 
> You need the alternate CD for raid because you can not do a
> raid setup
> from the desktop cd install. 
> 
> I too would like to hear more about SSD for hard drive
> replacements
> 
> 
I googled for your key woeds just to find out what a SSD is and found many hits:

http://www.google.com/search?q=SSD+for+hard+drive+replacements&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a

May be of help.


Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net