05-21-2008
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 Resident USSRian        | Re: PC for graphic design Quote:
 ---------------- And remember that great question that Pierre-Simon Laplace and Sir Isaac Newton, Andrei Markov and David Hilbert, Richard Feynman and Enrico Fermi, Albert Einstein and Edmund Halley did not come to ask throughout all of their dedication and work: "Who the hell is IMing me?"  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.  | ||
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06-25-2008
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 Explaining | Re: PC for graphic design I've decided to put the system together myself (although *I* won't actually be putting it together - just picking out the components). Anyway, I've got a question about raid. It was suggested that I get two hard drives and arrange them in a raid 0 array. So I read about raid and it sounds kinda complicated and risky. My question is should I bother with raid, should I partition my hard drive instead or should I just get a nice big hard drive and lots of ram. I've decided on a quad core processor so will I have a nice fast system that can handle photoshop without the need for raid? | |
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06-25-2008
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| Resident USSRian | Re: PC for graphic design depends on what you are trying to accomplish: deal is that raid needs to be done right, first of all you need a raid card, and not the one built into your mobo, because that is not a true raid card, i mean a pci-ex raid card, they are a bit on the expensive side. That's when raid gets performance, or reliability boost. It's not complicated to set up, you would go into raid card firmware and create a raided drive, at that point your computer will see one drive, instead of 2 hard drives, what level you use depends on what you try to accomplish: (i swear i have written about this before) RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, but it can be more then just that raid 0 - data is written across the disks in stripes, alowing for 2 simultaneous write operations to both disks. This greatly increases the speed, but as i said, really noticeable with a real hardware controller raid 1 - what is written to one drive, is written to the other, this decreases your total space to one drive, but it provides redundancy, if one drive fails, the data is still on the other one raid 5 - need at least 3 drives for this, but this allows for one drive to fail, the data exists on the other ones still (you can opt to have a hot spare here too) raid 10 - need at least 4 drives, combination of 2 raid 1 arrays in raid 0, providing both speed of raid 0, and redundancy of raid 1 (you loose 2 drives in translation) those are your most basic and commonly used ones, though you wont generally see 5 or 10 on machines, i can't say that i haven't.... raid is not really a need, it more of a, what you wanna do, thing ---------------- And remember that great question that Pierre-Simon Laplace and Sir Isaac Newton, Andrei Markov and David Hilbert, Richard Feynman and Enrico Fermi, Albert Einstein and Edmund Halley did not come to ask throughout all of their dedication and work: "Who the hell is IMing me?" This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. | |
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06-25-2008
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06-26-2008
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| Resident USSRian | Re: PC for graphic design You dont want a big hard disk, you want a fast one! ---------------- And remember that great question that Pierre-Simon Laplace and Sir Isaac Newton, Andrei Markov and David Hilbert, Richard Feynman and Enrico Fermi, Albert Einstein and Edmund Halley did not come to ask throughout all of their dedication and work: "Who the hell is IMing me?" This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. | |
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06-26-2008
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| Resident USSRian | Re: PC for graphic design idea, get a pci-ex ram drive for the OS and get a sas or scsi 15k rpm drive, or multiple drives for the system, expensive, yes, fast, you've got no clue, install Photoshop on the ram drive, for speed of loading, etc, store files on the HDs and you're golden ---------------- And remember that great question that Pierre-Simon Laplace and Sir Isaac Newton, Andrei Markov and David Hilbert, Richard Feynman and Enrico Fermi, Albert Einstein and Edmund Halley did not come to ask throughout all of their dedication and work: "Who the hell is IMing me?" This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. | |
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06-26-2008
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 Wedding Planner    Sponsor | Re: PC for graphic design Quote:
 (sorry, I couldn't help myself...the setup was too good to let pass) ---------------- Hypography Science Forums Moderator --- "There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." - Marshall McLuhan "We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it." - Marie Curie | ||
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06-26-2008
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| Resident USSRian | Re: PC for graphic design  ROFLCOPTERS i rarely give rep points, but that one is well-deserved ---------------- And remember that great question that Pierre-Simon Laplace and Sir Isaac Newton, Andrei Markov and David Hilbert, Richard Feynman and Enrico Fermi, Albert Einstein and Edmund Halley did not come to ask throughout all of their dedication and work: "Who the hell is IMing me?" This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. | |
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