M6600 Owners Thread

I don't have any interest in RAID whatsoever (especially RAID 0), simply because if one drive fails, then all of my data is lost, and with SSD's that is very risky business IMHO. I just want one drive for my OS and one drive for my files. I'd still like to go mSata now rather than wait for the Intel 520 series. I don't even know when the 520's are supposed to "launch".

 

Most IPS screens will be at least 1080p (1920x1080). The Dell U3011 (30" Ultrasharp IPS flagship) fits this m6600 perfectly, for a full screen 2560x1600 resolution output!

The colors will be a bit-off if you use a TN based LCD. If LCD/LED says 16.7 million colors can be displayed then it's not good enough for the full color spectrum of the m6600 to shine, you can see the difference clearly by comparing your m6600 LCD with the monitor.

Hmm not sure if m6600 can be plug into a Apple Cinema Display to test out the colors. Coz the color out put on a m6600 is sure to be higher than a mbookpro.

 

Easily solved, use a disk partition imager (sysresccd) or EaseUS ToDo Backup (Free) to backup the RAID-0 remotely. RAID-0 with the 3-SSD as one will speed up rendering, boot-up, transcoding and large model processing. Not so much on programming which relies more on the processor, network and RAM.

I would suggest don't buy and add all 3-SSD as RAID-0 the same day/month/year. It's the MTBF, add it one by one in a sequence of 6 months or 12 months. So in case of a failure you can test them out in sequence base on most likely failure.

 

I'm sure it is, but I honestly have no interest in RAID or spending all of that money on three SSD hard drives. It is too expensive and just seems like way overkill to me. I'd much rather just get one SSD or mSata drive, have one "traditional" spinning hard drive and leave it at that.

Here is some nice info that I found that echoes my feelings on why I won't go anywhere near a RAID 0 array, especially using SSD's:

 

I'll do that. The research I've done so far is people who bought it are angry for having bought it. I think I'll wait as you say.

 

Here's the stop-track metal plate which will be stuck on your system LCD panel if u subscribe to it. This is not stuck yet coz my panel was replaced. Too UK one whole month to ship me this plate, ended up it was bent, so I can't epoxy it to my LCD panel. Anyway, the machine was returned to dell anyway, not sure if I can transfer it to my new machine. It's just that this service suxx here in Malaysia, no GPS, i think you get a horrible login screen which you can't do much, only sign in and report.

It's not like what was shown in the Intel Demo page -->
Intel® Anti-Theft Technology Demo

For my old Dell, I didn't like 3rd party in service provided in UK/France (http://oxygen-3.com/en/index.html) then AbsoluteSoftware as their baseapp that was bundled with Dell's StopTrack in my country (Malaysia).

Dell should have picked wiselly or use Intel Direct. Forget those smaller ones that give problematic half-cooked solutions. We are no longer in the 80's.

 

Intel controller's or Intel SSD should be ok. The current Intel 510 series may be slower than OCZ, Patriot, Corsair or other 3rd party OEM but the Intel's version is used mainly on enterrpise dedicated application storage appliances with RAID. And it's market are mission critical transactional apps and to sit as a advance caching system for clustered databases and multi-tiered at the same time. They use Samsung nand, and the appliance is from a small Korean enterprise storage company as well. Costs USD 300,000 - 400,000 back in 2010 Nov for a 1-2TB and different card/services combos.

Back in the 90's RAIDs don't do well with Cache. Even those 7.3GB SCSI disk does not have built in cache or have very little cache. the case is very different now.

The Intel and Samsung chip sets are quite reliable, in my opinion, they are the 1st tier providers, the 2nd tiers would be Ocz, Patrior, Plexor, etc which will squeeze the max out of the SandForce, Samsung, Intel or etc chips for them to get the attention from consumer. It's the reliability, stability and consistency that will be degraded.

 

Here's the ugly tag...

But Oxygen-3 have changed their tag slightly, just not sure if it applies to Dell StopTrack or if Dell is still using them (the server/hosting to track & collerate activities securely).

 

System Track | Dell

No longer offering the StopTrack (2010), System Track (2011) and now it's Computrace.

To me they are all the same. The main technology behind is Intel, the solution and service whether it's good of bad depends on who Dell awards to. e.g. Computrace, or Oxygen-3 (which takes it from Absolute Software as well) ! Not sure what Oxygen-3 have to patent if they are taking solution from someone else.

Avoid Oxygen-3 at all costs, unless it's free.

Check out this link
http://content.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/vsl-absolute.aspx

 

I'm using an OCZ Nocti, and when I first put it in, I had the BSOD issue, it was driving me crazy. The most recent firmware update (2.15) solved everything, though, and the performance is great.