Well the problem is Most desktops don't do SCSI anymore. Because SATA is "good enough" most desktop makers are going that way now, you used to could get a Mac with SCSI drives, but it doesn't look like you can anymore.
I was looking for a dell desktop with SCSI drives and didn't see one at first look. You can always go with a tower server, which is basically what the MacPro is, and buy a separate video card for it. As for space needs, I'm familiar, My current home file server, for storage, not performance is a 6x250GB IDE drives in RAID 5 configuration. When I'm working with things I bring them to my desktop, or I batch things overnight. My images are pretty big, and I take a lot of them. A wedding or other event will usually see me take several thousand pictures in and even in Jpeg requires nearly 8 gig per event. My current desktop is an Athlon 2ghz running Windows XP x64 I have two gig of ram and two 150 Gig sata drives. I build my own system because I'm fairly particular about the parts inside. I always purchase a good graphics card. It has to be a trusted name, and fairly trusted model with more RAM than I need. I like ATI for this kind of stuff, the drivers are solid, and they always have drivers for new versions of Windows before anybody else does. ATI had good vista and XP x64 drivers available while both were still in beta. The main problem with Windows is that anybody can build something for it. Which means you can go to CompUSA and buy some cheap video card, and it will work. But some things will be odd, the driver won't be completely compatible or something similar. I got burned on numerous occasions buying something cheap that looked just as good only to find limited driver support. Memory is another thing, cheap memory causes problems, after crappy graphics cards, the memory is probably the next biggest cause of odd problems. Basically every part inside a computer has an accepted error threshold. Cheap memory is cheap because from the manufacturer it had more errors than the premium stuff, so instead of scrapping it, they sold it to some no name brand. The stuff inside is a very important part. Almost every PC maker has a cheap line, I would say away from those, they have older, cheaper components. Look for something that is business class, or enterprise class. With computers the latest and the greatest is never going to be the most stable or most reliable. It may have raw speed, but rarely does that do anybody any good. The only thing I've ever seen raw processing power do anything for is High Performance Computing. That does number crunching and that's it. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 2:57 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Looks like MS is trying to shove Vista down consumer's > throats > > That's pretty good to know. I'd certainly love to get some recommendations > for the best system to go with...I'll admit to being pretty dumb when it > comes to hardware. If you had say a budget of $2500-3000 (not including > monitors) what would you get? With the idea of maximizing performance in > Photoshop and having lots of available storage for images. I currently > have two internal drives of 120 gig and 240 gig and run backups to 2 > external USB drives, 300 and 500 gig (as well as backing up really > essential stuff to an online source). So I've got pretty hefty space needs > for a home user. I don't do much gaming or any kind of 3d graphics work so > my video card requirements shouldn't be too hefty. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:232685 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
