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Quote from radist:

At cyberpower it's listed as a gaming hard drive and adds $325 buckies. I won't be gaming. Tell me if you think I truly need it. Running esignal and my trading platform. That's it.
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Its really not a Gaming Drive, but hard drives are generally the bottleneck on PC performance.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136296

Is $$99 buck for 10K RPM, use this as your primary drive - i.e. Install OS and softwares on this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167035

$$229 is for SSD HDD
 
Quote from radist:

What's the wrist strap made of?

What do you think about the hard drive. 16MB Cache 7200RPM
or 32MB 10000 RPM?
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Wrist strap is an elastic band with embedded metal strips or fibers... they connect by wire and clip to some sort of ground (like the case) so that any static discharge in your body is drawn away before it can affect electronic components.

Some hard drives today have even 64MB cache. Performance difference between 16MB cache and 64MB cache is likely imperceptible. 10,000 RPM drives are usually noisier than 7200 RPM ones, though in general the 10K RPM ones will perform a bit faster.
 
Quote from LeeD:

If you don't want to install anything yourself and decide to stick with Cyberpower - your original choice - certaily, the price is right - go for a pair of ATI Radeon HD 5450.

Each ATI Radeon HD 5450 card cost in the range $40-$60 and supports up to 3 monitors (so you can have the maximum of 6 monitors with 2 cards).

Typically, an HD 5450 comes with a VGA, DVI and HDMI (or sometimes DyspalyPort) connectors. Depending on what mnitors you have you may have to buy additoonal adapaters (like DVI to HDMI for $3 - $5) and/or cables.
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Agree.. HD 5450 would be good, too, depending upon the card's ports.
 
Regarding a faster hard drive or SSD, I agree with Scataphagos that the actual trading applications are not hard drive intensive. If you are price-contious, I would hesitate paying extra $100 - $300 when the only benefit is saving 30 seconds whenver a computer is rebooted.

Moreover, SSDs are great for fast reading (like computer start up up) but repeated writing (such as saving price history in a charting application) slows down an SSD considerably over time.
 
Quote from LeeD:

If you don't want to install anything yourself and decide to stick with Cyberpower - your original choice - certaily, the price is right - go for a pair of ATI Radeon HD 5450.

Each ATI Radeon HD 5450 card cost in the range $40-$60 and supports up to 3 monitors (so you can have the maximum of 6 monitors with 2 cards).

Typically, an HD 5450 comes with a VGA, DVI and HDMI (or sometimes DyspalyPort) connectors. Depending on what mnitors you have you may have to buy additoonal adapaters (like DVI to HDMI for $3 - $5) and/or cables.
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Thanks. Two 512MB or 1GB?

ATI Radeon HD 5450 512MB DDR2 16X PCIe Video Card (Major Brand Powered by ATI) [+40] More Brand ...
ATI Radeon HD 5450 1GB DDR2 16X PCIe Video Card (Major Brand Powered by ATI) [+55] More Brand ...
 
Quote from LeeD:

"... repeated writing (such as saving price history in a charting application) slows down an SSD considerably over time.
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Not sure that's true in all cases. TRIM and similar functions are supposed to keep that from happening. TRIM prevents the SSD from having to write via a "read, erase, write" function rather than "read, write". The "write" part can slow things down in some SSDs but apparently not in all. (Can add more on this if interested.)
 
Quote from radist:

Thanks. Two 512MB or 1GB?

ATI Radeon HD 5450 512MB DDR2 16X PCIe Video Card (Major Brand Powered by ATI) [+40] More Brand ...
ATI Radeon HD 5450 1GB DDR2 16X PCIe Video Card (Major Brand Powered by ATI) [+55] More Brand ...
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Two is better, every Motherboard stot has limited bandwidth and therefor if you put two instead of One, you will get better performance.
1GB or 512MB ? really dosent matter. Its the GPU that matters - Graphics processor.
Since you plan to run 3 mons, I suggest two cards.
If you have Intel processor - buy NVDIA cards not ATI.
If your monitors have HDMI inputs ? there are cards that have HDMI connectors as well.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133276
 
Quote from radist:

Thanks. Two 512MB or 1GB?

ATI Radeon HD 5450 512MB DDR2 16X PCIe Video Card (Major Brand Powered by ATI) [+40] More Brand ...
ATI Radeon HD 5450 1GB DDR2 16X PCIe Video Card (Major Brand Powered by ATI) [+55] More Brand ...
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I'd go with the cheaper one. More video RAM doesn not buy you more performance. In my first multi-monitor rig, the video cards had ony 4MB of RAM each, and that was plenty. Graphic requirements for trading haven't changed much, if at all.
 
Quote from LeeD:

"... Moreover, SSDs are great for fast reading (like computer start up up) but repeated writing (such as saving price history in a charting application) slows down an SSD considerably over time.
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I read a post about SSDs from a code writer. He said, "most SSD users don't see much of the real benefit of SSDs... but when code writers get into 'compiling', the SSDs are WAAAAYYYYYY faster than spinner drives..."
 
OK, I realize I'm totally lost figuring out the hard drive. Maybe I should have started with the Corsair instead of the SATA. There are many options subsumed/hidden that are not reflected below, but I have to start somewhere and then narrow it down. In my previous configuration I picked the SATA but maybe that was wrong. What do you think? Thanks again.

500GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Hard Drive) [-252] More Options ...
750GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Hard Drive) [-240] More Options ...
1TB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Hard Drive) [-234] More Options ...
1.5TB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Hard Drive) [-206] More Options ...
2TB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Hard Drive) [-170] More Options ...
640GB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Hard Drive) [-230] More Options ...
1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Hard Drive) [-206] More Options ...
2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Hard Drive) [-70] More Options ...
300GB Gaming Western Digital VelociRaptor 10,000RPM SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache WD3000GLFS (Single Hard Drive) [-84] More Options ...
600GB Gaming Western Digital VelociRaptor 10,000RPM SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 32MB Cache WD6000HLHX (Single Hard Drive) [+26] More Options ...
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128GB A-DATA S599 Series Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Single Hard Drive) [-43] More Options ...
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30 GB Kingston 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk [Best Value for Boot Drive SSD] (Single Hard Drive) [-227] More Options ...
64 GB Kingston 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Single Hard Drive) [-173] More Options ...
128 GB Kingston 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Single Hard Drive) [-53] More Options ...
256 GB Kingston 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Single Hard Drive) [+451] More Options ...
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40 GB Intel X25-V 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Single Hard Drive) [-197] More Options ...
80 GB Intel X25-M 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Single Hard Drive) [-107] More Options ...
120 GB Intel X25-M 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Single Hard Drive) [-41] More Options ...
160 GB Intel X25-M 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Single Hard Drive) [+145] More Options ...
32 GB Corsair Nova Series V32 Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Single Hard Drive) [-207] More Options ...
64 GB Corsair Nova Series V64 Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Single Hard Drive) [-150] More Options ...
128 GB Corsair Nova Series V128 Gaming MLC Solid State Disk
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128GB x 2 (256GB Capacity) Raid 0 Extreme Performance [+299]
128GB x 2 (128GB Capacity) Raid 1 High Performance with Data Security [+299]
128GB x 4 (512GB Capacity) Raid 0 Extreme Performance [+897]
128GB x 4 (256GB Capacity) Raid 0+1 Extreme Performance with Data Security [+897]
40GB Corsair Force 40 Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Single Hard Drive) [-160] More Options ...
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* 120GB Corsair Force 120 Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Single Hard Drive) [+26] More Options ...
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