>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.
Yeah, that's often what I come home from a weekend of shooting with. But don't really do it often enough to need quite *that* much space just yet. >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. Yes, I've had that experience as well. I've generally bought Dells in the past, but just get annoyed with the relatively small amount of options they have. I was thinking of getting a system from Xi this time, looks like they can build to just about any spec you want. >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. And you're often paying a premium for something that will give relatively little visible improvements. I generally try to go with one or two steps down from the "latest and greatest" as you say. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:232702 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
