LCD monitors

[Jamon Camisso]

Giles Orr wrote:
> On 8/9/07, Marc Lijour <marc-bbkyySd1vPWsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> On 8/7/07, Giles Orr <gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>> Slightly OT but if anyone is looking for a recommendation: less than a
>>>> week ago I bought an Acer 2216W 22" widescreen LCD.  It's about as
>>>> cheap as you can get a 22" monitor at $261, and I like it a lot.
>> Great!
>> Do you have the name of the shop, and/or the nearest intersection?
>> I checked it out at tigerdirect.ca and it is about 270$.
> 
> http://www.filtechcomputer.com/
> 
> Filtech is on the east side of Spadina just south of College.  Their
> website is fairly poor.  I went there partly because they have a
> better reputation among geeks than any other store on the College
> strip.  But you might want to call: they pulled down what appeared to
> be the last one in the store for me.  That was a week ago though.
> 
>> While you are at it, any recommendation for a good mobo doing RAID1 (and
>> Linux -should I mention that?)?
> 
> Sorry, can't help at all on that one.  I haven't bought a new computer
> in four years!

It's pretty easy to use softraid with any 2 or more hard drives to 
create a RAID(0,1,5...) array, and cheaper than buying a motherboard 
with a hardware raid controller. Most desktop mobos come with raid 
support, but that's done through the bios and software, so you're better 
off disabling that and using Linux to build and manage your array(s).

There are some common ~$100 boards that come with 6-8 SATA ports, and 
1-2 IDE, so you could build a pretty nifty storage array for yourself 
with a few $110 500GB drives ;)

Jamon

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