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That was my thought exactly ... '2007????' Too funny

I've been in the IT business for 25 years - small systems, midrange, large systems The typical hardware Raid 1 implementation on small (x86) systems allow One Write or two Reads possible per mirrored pair. Twice the Read transaction rate of single disks. Same write transaction rate as single...

The 600 Foot Tall Pillsbury Dough Boy is next, ... you heard it here first

Biblical....

You've probably never had a disk fail in the middle of the day :)

RAID 1 is Disk Mirroring. Every time the OS writes to a sector on 1 disk, 1 writes the identical data to the second disk. This protects you from failure of a hard disk My 2 cents: If your'e gonna drop $3K on a machine - I'd definitely put some of that money toward a RAID 1 setup. Do it...

no offence taken I would never have noticed they guy was talking about an entirely different cpu unless you mentioned it

LOL I stand corrected! I was doing 6 other things while answering the OP and I read XEON as AMD Phenom I recant my earlier statement regarding heat Thanks for keeping me honest!!

Toms Hardware site has some pretty good discussions on this The thing can run all day - its more a matter of how much time the cores are working under load

The i7 is more expensive but IMHO would last longer than the XEON. The XEONs tend to suffer from the prolonged heat I would guess you run large calcs in your excel spreadsheets - that causes the system fan to start up on the T420s. Good indication of the heat the cpus generate when all...

IMHO a clear case of the smart money getting out at every opportunity

I think its better to keep simulations off the trading machine. (Again, IMHO) The box I spec'd is a very effective trading machine for 400 bucks I have built several on this spec for other traders - so far positive feedback. I dont know much about Excel modeling volativity surfaces so I...

IMHO this is about 400 bucks worth of hardware your trading application will probably never use Unless you wrote the application yourself

Appx Cost - HW = $400

I am building this one as we speak:

I don't use a laptop as a trading machine. But I love my TP-410 Not too sexy but solid as a rock When it dies I'll buy a new TP (whatever flavor is available then)

Thanks Baron. The older format is much much better IMHO

Find a quantitative or analytical problem you want to solve. Sit down with Excel and try to solve it Every time you get stuck - use Google to search an Excel tip that will show you how

Its trying to tell you whats broken http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

Where is the land?