IMO the best price/performance/data safety setup is IDE Raid 5. If you buy a
Ide Raid 5 card (Adaptec makes a good one: 2400A, which sells for around 300
US) you can then connect, say four IDE 100GB drives and get an array which
is very fast AND fairly fault tolerant. You "pay" the equivalent of one
drive ie. - in this case - 100 GB for the security of your data, but you end
up with a 300 GB drive array and the ability to swap/hotswap a drive and
rebuild the array should one of the drives fail.
Also, by using UDMA/100 5400 instead of 7200 drives you get a slightly
slover performance, but you gain by having much lower temperatures and much
lower noise levels.
Such a Raid 5 system would cost around 1300 US (depending where you buy) for
300 GB, but your data is much more secure than the simpler and cheaper Raid
0.
Lastly, these stand alone Raid cards - unlike raid solutions on
motherbords - have their own processors on board which takes over all the
hard work, freeing up your system processor.
Greetings Preben
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Grove" <jpgrove@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 9:46 AM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images
> I have just ordered a 60 Gig Maxtor ATA 100 drive (ATA 133 is also
> available) I have done this because it is far cheaper than buying
> another 36 gig drive to go on my U160 SCSI channel. I can get the Maxtor
> drives for around 60 UK pounds, which means I could buy 4 of these IDE
> drives for the same price as a Quantum U160 36gig drive!
>
> One thing to remember about Ide if you decide to give the drive a
> beasting is to cool it with a slim cooler.
>
> --
> James Grove
> james@jamesgrove.co.uk
> www.jamesgrove.co.uk
> www.mountain-photos.co.uk
> ICQ 99737573
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of Ezio c/o TIN
> Sent: 10 November 2001 21:18
> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> Subject: Re: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images
>
>
> I would recommend to buy a U-160 SCSI ... from e-bay ... I have just
> done this to integrate the other 3 U-160 I have and I have bought for
> 102US $ a 18GB IBM 10000 rpm brand new under warranty. A 36GB 10000rpm
> also IBM U-160 is rated for 170 US $ ...
>
> Sincerely.
>
> Ezio
>
> www.lucenti.com e-photography site
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrea de Polo" <andrea@alinari.it>
> To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
> Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 4:53 PM
> Subject: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a CreoScitex scanner with attached a, Apple G4 Silver 733 with
> > OS
> 9.2.1 and 1GB of ram; I noticed that the internal HD is a slow 5400rpm
> UltraAta HD; question: since I work only with Photoshop and my images
> are about 60mb in size and I just have to open and save them during the
> day (we process about 200 images/day), I was wondering what is the best
> and effective way to speed up my work: buy a scsi external HD 10.000rpm
> (total cost about 650 UK pounds), OR buy an internal UltraAta 7200 rpm
> (total cost about 250 UK pounds) ???
> >
> > Again, we just have to open, retouch and than save our 40mb images,
> > but
> currently I am noticing that is taking a bit to access the HD.
> >
> > Thanks to give me your best solution for time/money issue. Andrea
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