Stijn!!

[nynor]

i was trying to keep it reasonable. and i what i specced isn't that far off, actually.

i like the CPU's i picked better, for example. 7.2GT/s and 15mb cache.


glen, i just noticed it doesn't have any CPU coolers. my bad.

hardware RAM disk. i hadn't thought of that. let me research a bit.

oh, follow the link.... duh!

[GH85Carrera]

Whoops. I missed a couple of items when I added it up. Still Under 5K is amazing.

My first work computer was a 6 Mhz Genuine IBM AT with 32 Meg hard drive & 2 megs of RAM. It cost the boss a cool 5 grand. It came with DOS 3.0. We added a second graphs card to it had one color display and one orange text on black background display. We connected it to a film recorder through a GPIB board. We ran a program from Zenographs called Mirage that allowed us to do the graphics and send the file to a film recorder. We could make a 35mm slide and we charged 30 to 70 bucks per slide. We had customers standing in line to buy them. The film recorder and computer and software cost just over 35K. That was in 1986.

Powerpoint and video projectors killed the market for slides.

[svandamme]

you can't beat the build quality of a dedicated workstation or the inherent performance of the components, it will be faster then a 4 grand custom pc... Those things are designed with much care to go like stink, and to do it reliably, 24/7...years on end.

Sure, some can do similar things cheaper, but there will always be a drawback somewhere..
If it's business critical, then you want it to work reliably..
And you want to have reliable supply of spare parts to fix any possible hardware failure without guessing if the replacement part will require some kind of effort to get going..

[nynor]

not worth it:

ACard's ANS-9010 Serial ATA RAM disk - The Tech Report - Page 4

no speed gain to speak of with video editing.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by svandamme

4 grand?? for a dream machine?
That's not a dream machine for what Glen does..

This is more dreamy...

Dell™ Precision™ R5500
Dual Xeon X5690 (Six Core, 3.46GHz Turbo, 12MB, 6.4 GT/s)
192 GB ram
Rack mount
2 x 6 GB NVIDIA Quadro 6000
6 or so Disks on a Perc I6 controller
Dual FX100 Remote Acces Host controllers & thin clients, so i don't have to sit next to a noisy beast of a computer

24 grand + depending on the disks used.. SSD for speed or platters for capacity...

That's the basic box.. now if i really wanna give it some stick and somebody pays the bill, i'de consider a Hardware RAM disk, which would offer the system a way to increase performance past the 192 GB of Motherboard ram...


perhaps something like this
ACard's ANS-9010 Serial ATA RAM disk - The Tech Report - Page 1

That is a pure fantasy wet dream machine. We will be adding in a couple of high end video monitors. I am guessing we will spend 5 to 7 grand to get it finished. It will have just the one program loaded on it.

I see that Windows server can run up to 2 TB of ram. That would be expensive!

[nynor]

you have much more faith in branded products than i, stijn. which is fine. call it a shortcoming on my part.

[nynor]

adding video card(s) will be necessary, in that case, glen. for higher end ones, figure $500 to $1K each.

[RKDinOKC]

My 2TB NAS is also my wireless router. Have another 2TB on my fileserver. 250 Gig on my laptop is not enough drive space for me.

[GH85Carrera]

We have 4 NAS RAIDS. We don't do mission critical 100% up time stuff. We just need a BIG bucket to store digital files on long term. We have 36 TB of storage right now.

[nynor]

mmm..... 36TB of storage. that is a LOT of music!

[Porsche-poor]

Bet I can fill it.

Got another gig on Saturday. Time to try and break things up on the camera.....

[Rick V]

Originally Posted by nynor

mmm..... 36TB of storage. that is a LOT of porn!

Fixed it for ya
Evening Y'all

[GH85Carrera]

Oh it amazing how fast we fill up a few TB of storage. We work at deleting all unnecessary files.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Rick V

Fixed it for ya
Evening Y'all

(Very green text) We don't store the porn, just download it fresh. (Very green text)

[Rick V]

Ummmmmmmmmmm
no comment.

[GH85Carrera]

One of my friends loves to argue to point that the Internet, computers, DVD players and recorders, high definition are invented and improved only because of porn.

[Rick V]

Interesting way of looking at it but I would tend to think otherwise

[Outback Porsche]

Morning

Did I hear someone say porn?

TGIF

[Outback Porsche]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

That is a pure fantasy wet dream machine. We will be adding in a couple of high end video monitors. I am guessing we will spend 5 to 7 grand to get it finished. It will have just the one program loaded on it.

I see that Windows server can run up to 2 TB of ram. That would be expensive!

Have a look at HP Z820's. You can customise them. I use a Z600 at work, it screams along.

HP Z820 Workstation - HP Z820 Workstations

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Outback Porsche

Morning

Did I hear someone say porn?

TGIF

That has to be art.