I've done just fine with four external firewire drives on my Mac system. They're fast and reasonably reliable. I would add one 500 gig external to your system for now. Paul On Sep 25, 2007, at 12:18 AM, Amita Guha wrote:
> My PC laptop is on its last legs, and I'm not too into Vista, so I've > decided to take the plunge and switch systems. (I know, I've never > done that before). I've spent the last week or so researching Macs, > and tonight I finally went to an Apple store, where I decided on a > basic configuration: MacPro w/20" monitor. > > My question is, if the most resource-heavy work I'm going to do on > this machine is run Lightroom and Photoshop, do I need a RAID? I > usually store my images on a networked drive, but Nate says the system > will run a lot faster with a RAID. I figured a 250gb drive and 4GB RAM > would be fine to start with. What do you guys think? > > Thanks in advance, > Amita > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
