[Brian Betz]

That’s great news Tom as it is exactly what I am looking to use my new workstation for…thanks!

Brian

[Brian Betz]

Thanks Walter,

That is very helpful! Great idea just to export to the RAID. With SSD being a bit less expensive than what they once were it would make sense to have the system and, it appears, one for the cache is also beneficial.

I guess I will need to price out a CUDA-enabled NVIDIA GPU. This is my “once in a very long time” purchase…the last workstation I bought myself was a Polywell around 2004, which has long since been retired. I would hate to skimp on a feature and later wished I wouldn’t have.

Thanks again.

Brian

[Brian Betz]

Thanks Ted I will check these out! Always good to have a number of possibilities.

Brian

[Brian Betz]

Wow Don! Thanks for all the info and a Happy Thanksgiving to you! Your raise some great points and I am going to be thinking the all over the next few days. I probably would not build my own, but I was thinking of buying less now and doing some upgrading later. I also think you had an excellent suggestion to contact Dell and see what a
equivalent system might run. Thanks again!

Brian

[Brian Betz]

Thanks Ted….looks like there are some pretty good reasons to go with the better graphics card.

Brian

[Brian Betz]

Thanks Walter…just trying to wrap my brain around all of this. Yes I might add external RAID later on… From all accounts I have heard the Z800 makes a really fantastic workstation and it appears the set-up I have is pretty balanced…I just have to give the Quadro 4000 some consideration…possibly downgrade to 2000 for the budget.

Brian

[Brian Betz]

Thanks David! Yes I am really paranoid on back up, I plan on automated software to an external hard drive. The Quadro 4000 is tempting me, but I may have to cut costs somewhere. The sales person suggested possibly going with the Quadro 2000. Trying to keep the costs down a bit….and I could pop in a graphics card later on , if I decided to beef up a bit. I guess it is always a balancing act between cost and performance! Thanks again!
Brian

[Brian Betz]

Thanks Walter for the input and link! I am now tempted by the Quadro 4000! I will have see how my budget works out on this, but overall the system does seem to be a the right on for my interests.

Just so I am clear on the drive configuration. With the three drives, as listed above, would it be best to leave as non RAID?

Thanks!
Brian

[Brian Betz]

Thanks so much David. I have heard many people say great things about the Z800. The last workstation I bought was many years ago and I pretty much speced every last piece of it out and let the company know what I wanted down to the detail. There has been much in the way of change and improvement. Nevertheless, in some respects has gotten more complex.

I’m thinking that the hard drives will be better off without RAID and just have the three drives.

Thanks again!

Brian