Chris_Morrell

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

I found this disturbingly fascinating in a similar manner to reading autopsy or accident reports. It was clear and explained a process that I wasn't familiar with even though I shoot a .22 target pistol and .22 target rifle. Between the linked article and some of the comments it gave me a new found respect for my peashooters.

Chris_Morrell

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

Just a heads up, this was posted twice. Everyone else is chatting up antimatter here -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1915155

Chris_Morrell

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

I see. In that case it applies even more. It might be considered a cheese rush but an all-in with your drones would be very hard to counter unless they were able to hold the choke. It would have a good chance of ending the game in under 8 minutes versus drawing it out another 5-7 minutes.

Chris_Morrell

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

I'd have to disagree regarding rushes in high level play. I most enjoy 4v4 random and a key move is decimating one opponent's economy to the point that they become a non-factor in the game. With this build order in a 4v4 one player can neutralize a Protoss or Zerg player and then pivot to mutas or continue with roach/hydra. Since your economy isn't in shambles like a traditional 6 pool zergling rush, even if you fail with the roaches you are still left in acceptable shape to assist your teammates.

I specify this being useful in 4v4 against Protoss/Zerg as Terran traditionally wall and the few seconds it takes to burst through the wall may give their teammates time to mobilize.

Note- I wrote this under the impression that your mentioning "all-in rushes" didn't include sending your drones in to act as meat shields. In a 4v4 that would be suicide and invalidate my point.

Chris_Morrell

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

I have a friend who uses the noodles and chucks the flavoring packet. He then adds veggies, some protein and a soy sauce based stock. It's pretty delicious and I imagine still decently cheap.

Chris_Morrell

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

I imagine the vast majority of people equate steam engines with steam powered trains seen in cinema. Unlike those clanking piston based engines, modern turbines whir -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHhNrQL7Azc

Chris_Morrell

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

You may want to consider testing the LSI 9211-8i for a very fast JBOD controller or the 9260-8i for an equally fast RAID5/6 card. I've been very happy with these controllers and they are typically much cheaper than the equivalents from ARECA. Just make sure to use the latest drivers and firmware as LSI has been improving SSD performance by leaps and bounds in the last year.

On thing I noticed with the X-25M G2s is that if you are in a write intensive environment they will degrade in performance dramatically. The SandForce SF1200/1500 drives seems to handle garbage collection much better and run with lower write amplification levels. I've found that the SandForce drives do a much better job at maintaining acceptable random write performance after months of being beat on. That all being said a beat to hell X25-M is still 10 times better than a spinning disk.

If you want I can run an iometer batch or figure out tiobench if you'd like some runs on the 9211 or 9260 to compare with your ICH and Adaptec runs. Ping me at gomeler at gmail if you are interested.