[Ray Sherman]

Hi again,
I was at the Dell site looking at the Dell Precision T7400. I found in their configuration area that they offer two differant types of hard drives, one being SATA with the other being SAS. Here is their explanation of SAS;

SAS(Serial Attached SCSI) unifies compelling elements of the SCSI and SATA worlds in a single efficient design. SAS is an excellent standard for workstation environments requiring extremely high performance and reliability. It supports the traditional SCSI command structure so it can work with SCSI software tools. And like SATA 3.0Gb/s and SATA 10K, SAS’s raw data transfer rate is up to 3.0 Gbits/sec.
SAS, however, is a bi-directional bus, meaning data can be routed in both directions, yielding a higher number of simultaneous data transfers to and from multiple devices than SATA 3.0Gb/s or SATA 10K.

What’s your opinion? Thanks, Ray

[Ray Sherman]

Hi Mike,
I want to thank you again for all your help and info. I never built my own computer before either, therefore I would need to find a shop as you did. There was one in my area but they closed a couple years ago. Hopefully I can find one around with a good reputation. Thanks again, Ray

[Ray Sherman]

Hi Mike,
Thanks for the quick response! I was looking at the Dell Precision 6300 Workstation with the Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme Edition Processor. With your experiance I may just go with your system. Could you tell me if Antec builds their computers for you or do you need to buy the parts and do it yourself? Also, if you was to upgrade your current system, what would you change? Thanks for all your help, Ray