RAID Mirror and or Striping

Quote from BobbyMurcerFan:

Thanks again guys for the advice. A system builder out here in LA recommended a serverboard system w/ RAID array (stripe & mirror). I talked with a good computer shop (PC Club) and they split on this approach.

Your responses have clearly removed any questions from my mind. RAID is too much for my setup (XP Pro, TS6/7, TradeStationFutures, TWS, thinkorswim's front end, Excel, Access (sometimes), Word (sometimes), IE, OutlookExpress).

I'll probably be sucking it up until the new P4's with the 800Mhz buses are released in a few months and then go some P4 route.
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Good choice. I don't think that the softwares you have addressed will really show any major pickups in abilities/speeds for your uses though. But it will be a nice machine I'm sure. Good luck and happy trading! :)
 
Quote from canyonman00:



OK, but stripping in this instance is not the answer. According to the patient, there is only one un-networked computer. That is not a good "Tech" advised method to take care of the issue of "reliability." That is too broad a term to plan a solution like stripping for. Saving data can be easily achieved by simply adding a 10 gig hd for "data only." Simple, concise, cheap insurance. There are a lot of other things that could fill the bill if you know what the real underlying issue is. :)
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Diskkeeper comes to mind, but there are a number of other products, as well as those products that are now wrapped in under Win2000 Server as features.
 
Quote from BobbyMurcerFan:

Thanks again guys for the advice. A system builder out here in LA recommended a serverboard system w/ RAID array (stripe & mirror). I talked with a good computer shop (PC Club) and they split on this approach.

Your responses have clearly removed any questions from my mind. RAID is too much for my setup (XP Pro, TS6/7, TradeStationFutures, TWS, thinkorswim's front end, Excel, Access (sometimes), Word (sometimes), IE, OutlookExpress).

I'll probably be sucking it up until the new P4's with the 800Mhz buses are released in a few months and then go some P4 route.
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The 800Mhz FSB's (front side bus) along with QPB support will show a radical speed improvement across the board on all applications being run, both on laptops (when the equivalent chipsets are released) and on desktops.

Under that basis, the background tasks of parallel data support (as described through multiple means earlier) will have a far smaller overall impact upon your processing speed and speed of your applications.

You mentioned a healthy combination of applications, inclusive of TOS Option's package. Who do you use for Direct Access and are you a Prop or Retail (IUDM - if you don't mind)?
 
Quote from limitdown:

Using Raid in a trading workstation is a hard to justify case.


Some of those functions would be, as mentioned, creating either a current tape or CDR/DVDR backup mirror image of the primary drives. Without that, its just like running with a catch pan, and never doing anything with what's caught in that pan.



Cheers
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What product will make a backup image of a hard disk onto a DVDR? Never heard of such a thing.
 
Quote from North Pesos:



AS Windows 2000 Workstation, XP Pro (and Home ed.) don't support native Raid software as Win 2000 Server, you will have to choose XP dotnet edition (server ed. of XP available since few weeks) for do that. But the both can support Raid hardware controller or onboard Raid controller without problem.
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Dont run an OS based software RAID. If you cant boot up into the system, then you are locked out of your disk.

Run the Promise RAID controller and 2 hard disks for mirroring. Its very simple and the OS overhead is no big deal for anything resembling current cpus.

If you absoluletly want NO additional CPU load, run the 3Ware controller which has its own on board processor.

Mirror RAIDs are easy and IMO should be standard for business for developer workstations.
 
Quote from PuffyGums:
What product will make a backup image of a hard disk onto a DVDR? Never heard of such a thing.
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Backup/recovery software usually comes with a CDRW/DVDR-RW drive for that, e.g., the HP CDRWs ship with an HP utility that will image your hard drives to CDs and create 4 bootable floppies. If there's a disaster, you can boot from the floppies and restore the complete disk config from the CDs.
 
Quote from limitdown:



The 800Mhz FSB's (front side bus) along with QPB support will show a radical speed improvement across the board on all applications being run, both on laptops (when the equivalent chipsets are released) and on desktops.

Under that basis, the background tasks of parallel data support (as described through multiple means earlier) will have a far smaller overall impact upon your processing speed and speed of your applications.

You mentioned a healthy combination of applications, inclusive of TOS Option's package. Who do you use for Direct Access and are you a Prop or Retail (IUDM - if you don't mind)?
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I'm just a regular person slowly getting more into trading and hoping to make a living at it eventually. As for direct access, I've got three accounts. Interactive Brokers' Trader Workstation, TradeStation's TS6 (not really direct access for futures), thinkorswim's frontend (for options). Sorry, I'm still a little new to all this, what does IUDM mean?
 
Bobby,

Its rare that this many persons with in depth technical experience, as exhibited here in, will have the inclination or the time to contribute to these threads, let alone take the time to clearly explain their thoughts.

Normally amongst us Tech's we speak in acronym soup and quite fast at that. Ever see "Alias"?, Marshall is an excellent example of that.

This time, we got over four diffent clarifications and explanations of Raid, Usage of Raid, Practical implementations of such, Recommendations of pseudo-Raid configurations, normal-Raid configurations and alternate-Raid configurations (software based).

Now if we could only explain how to place a trade, then.....



:p
 
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