i’m building a machine for a friend who is a photoshop professional. could you guys help me out. ive been out of the "system buildg scene" for a year or so because of a new baby. I know he wants a pc and not a mac. I also know that he wants to keep the case compact/ modern. Uber fast cpu and ram are a priority…double processor ? As much quick ram as possible.I dont want to say money is no object, but i could say money isnt an object within reason and common sense…i dont need a N.A.S.A. box.
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Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 mobo Intel Q6600 Quad Core processor 8 gigs of G Skill PC800 RAM Two WD 500 gig HDs configured as RAID (0) Separte 320 gig HD for scratch Gigabye GeForce 8600GT 256 meg Video Card Antec Designer Case Vista Ultimate 64
I’ve heard that argument over and over again and I still think it’s unwarranted. What’s the difference if something happens to a RAID setup as opposed to a single drive?
I keep my data backed up and I check the backups to make sure everything is fine. The only hassle I can see is IF something goes wrong is figuring out which drive went bad.
In the world of risk vs reward, this is a "risk" I’m willing to take.
With two drives in Raid 0 you have twice the likelihood of mechanical failure, which is still small but not negligible. Aside from that, I’d agree that there’s no difference.
Lose one drive of RAID 0 and you lose everything. Double the chance of failure. Why put OS and programs in with storage files? You need to defrag OS and system more than static storage but RAID-0 2 500gig drives forces you to defrag up to 1 terrabite of info striped on 2 drives. It seems best do a fast OS and program single drive (10k or 15K SAS or Raptor) and a Raid 0 scratch and a large storage drive. Put a Windows Page file on OS drive and large storage drive, Windows will use the one that is free when it needs it. I have set up PC’s with Raid 0 boot drives but only for people that insist and keep regular backup drive images. If you do video editing you should add another set of RAID-0 so you have one for source and one for destination files. Raid 1 keeps 2 drives of the same info (mirror), RAID 0 splits files between both drives.
Robert – wossa difference between your GeForce 8600 GT 256Mb video card and the one supplied in my new machine, a GeForce 8400 GS?
I ask because my new PC has been delivered from a manufacturer with that card in it, and Windows Vista Performance Monitor gives it a low (?) score of 3.5. Is that a low score for a video card or is it actually about right? I only intend to use this PC for Photoshop 2D (flat) work, I don’t do games or video…
The rest of the components in my PC get a score of between 5.2 and 5.8, so it looks like my system is being throttled by the video card.
Or is it? Will it make that much difference if I upgrade to a similar card to yours?
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