[X] My Assistant

[djellison]

Thinking out loud here...project 'SHOFFICE' kicks off in July - the Shed that will turn into my little office and official UMSF HQ....

Come early winter, I'll be upgrading my PC, as I need more power for the bigger mosaics I'm working on...

Currently my two machiens are..

3.2G P4, 2048Mb DDR3200, WD Raptor 72Gb System disk, and then various 7200RPM SATA and IDE drives for other purposes, and a 19" tft ( 1280 x 1024 )

My laptop's a 1.83 Ghz Centrino thing with 2048Mb of DDR2 and a 100gb 7200 RPM drive, with a 1920 x 1200 17" screen.

My plans will probably be for a mid-range Core 2 Duo CPU, 4GB DDR2, the 72Gb Raptor as the system disk, but a pair of 500 GB Segates in mirrored Raid as the main storage for 'live' projects, with hopefully, one of those cunning two drive NAS's again in mirrored raid for archived data etc. My current desktop machine will then become a little slave in the corner, doing things like forum backups at 2am when my ISP isn't counting the bandwidth etc

I was lusting after the 30" Apple and Dell displays - but realisticly they're a bit too pricey - so I'll probably stretch to the 24" Dell 2407 display, possibly with the 19" tft as a second screen....not sure yet though.

Storage is the real pain though - becasue obviously, every ounce has to be replicated for backup, but buy using a Raid array, one eliminates a single-drive-failure nightmare arrising.

Anyway - thought I'd open up a thread to do comparisons...perhaps we could even set up a PTGUI project as an UMSF system benchmark?

Doug