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Fullname:   Mike
Location:   England, Suffolk, Ipswich,
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Jesus, i never knew any of this, its really inresting, what surpised me was "Google runs its systems on cheap, no-name IU and 2U servers -- so cheap that Google refers to them as PCs. After all each one has a standard x86 PC processor, standard IDE hard disk, and standard PC reliability -- which means it is expected to fail once in three years."!!lol, using ide!!even i have sata, but with such a laugh business i can understand why they would use this as it is more cost effective.cheers !!!Mike!!...www.suprmobo.net!!
 
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