Digital BW, The Print

Joe,

Not sure about the need for SCSI these days. A pair of 10,000 rpm WD Raptors 
(35 GB) running in a Raid0 config, which is standard on most high-end 
motherboards these days, are quite nippy.

I have my system on this Raid0 array, and another pair of 250GB WD drives 
for data and backups. Each of these has a small 10GB partition onto which I 
put the windows pagefile on one and the PS scratch disk on the other. At 
least I did; I now have the scratch file in a separate partition on the 
Raid0 system drive. As long as the pagefile is on another drive, this is 
faster, I think. I put the printer's spoolfiles on the unused 10GB partition 
now.

Lots of cases will take four hard drives; you just need to make sure you 
have adequate cooling. Coolermaster cases have two fans blowing directly 
over the drives.

I gave up adding up the cost of my latest PC; it was frightening my wife!

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Dempsey" <jdempsey@...>

I haven't put the final pencil to it yet. My guess is over $2500 and under
$3000. If you were to get a name machine with all those goodies it would be
substantially higher. My strategy now is to stick with this box and every
two to three years upgrade guts as needed (or desired) to take advantage of
new technology advances which might be beneficial.