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Advice on a building a workstation
I am putting together a Windows 7 workstation for a friend who will be doing a lot of design work using Photoshop, Illustrator, Publisher and some sign design applications, including Flexi10.
While none of these is particularly resource intensive, he does deal with very large files. He wants 16 GB RAM at least.
The Flexi10 program requirements does say it needs 4GB of working disk space. I am not sure if it creates its own swap file or what it needs that for. I have a call in to their tech support, waiting to hear.
I am wondering if he would benefit from a striped RAID or an SSD for the OS and programs, and a RAID for the storage. He needs almost a terrabyte of storage.
Also what are the thoughts regarding enterprise versions of hard drives. Are they worth the extra money for the reliability if you are running regular backups anyway? I plan to set him up with Carbonite, and with a weekly backup to an external disk.
Thanks