On 14/3/03 6:25 pm, "Nick Wilcox-Brown" wrote: > Simon, > Forget trying to upgrade this machine - buy an off the shelf workstation > from Dell or HP. You will ideally need twin Xeon processors, a min of 2Gb of > RAM and ideally SCSI hard drives to work with these files in a sensible > timeframe and to give you future upgradeability A machine with a RAM > capacity of say 4GB can be purchased now with 1GB Ram and you can add more > as you need / can afford it. Dell's machines are better value for money than > a homebuild, but their Ram is expensive. You will get 3 yrs on site support > included in the price. A workstation is a far higher performance machine > than say a Dimension, but they are designed to reliable and to be upgraded. > If you go SCSI (big performance gain), DO NOT mix scsi and IDE drives in the > same machine - go for small ultra fast SCSI drives internally and get a > large Firewire / USB 2 external drive for storage. > NickWB.
Check storage speeds on http://www.storagereview.com/ ATA drives don't lag as far behind SCSI as they used to. My old IBM120GXP is almost as fast as my Apple installed 36Gb 10,000rpm SCSI on a fast card. My Twin 120Gb raid is faster. And you get much better value for money. But it all depends on your budget. If you can afford it, sure get 15,000rpm SCSI's. The Western Digital 200Gb is well fast. Paul -- Paul Tansley Fashion & Beauty Photography London +44 (0) 7973 669584 http://www.paultansley.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
