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Casey, I noticed in the Supernova system from singburst.com that you run an array of SAS hard drives. I've been wondering about these drives for some time now but never was sure if the higher disk speed (and with multiple drives in a striped array) would have enough increase in speed efficiency...

I was actually looking up some comparisons today and was quite surprised. For the extra money saved on a PNY Quadro FX570 compared to a Quadro FX1700, we could even go with two striped Serial Attached SCSI 15,000rpm hard drives for the sheer raw power and speed of it all. Would that be...

It sounds like the usual consensus is that even a single quad-core desktop line Core2Quad Q6600 can outperform and out-power two dual-core AMD Opteron processors. In the long run, this is good to hear as it means few physical processors to buy so lower cost, cheaper motherboard, and cheaper...

John it's great to hear all your helpful input! I've actually been looking at your systems and have been very impressed with them for a long time. The only thing that would be "overkill" on the Monster for our computer would be hard drive space. All of our data is stored on a file server, for...

We recently added Cisco ASA 5505 firewalls at both of our shops. For a hardware firewall, they were very reasonably priced and have lots of wonderful features, many of which I don't even understand or know what to do with! The biggest thing we liked about these were the ability to set up...

I am in the exact same boat as you Techman. I have an HP that came with Vista, and was waiting to try out the SP1 for Vista. I've noticed Vista started running INCREDIBLY slow since it's install (without any real system or software changes even) so if the SP1 can't really fix this, I'm ripping...

We actually put in 10,000rpm Western Digital 150 GB Raptor hard drives in the three design workstations at our Colby office, including the new double dual-core AMD Opteron system I described earlier. Not a huge speed benefit, but enough to notice it. There are quite a few reasons why we have...

The only real software that will be running on the workstation will be Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Illustrator, which I've been told are both designed to multi-thread up to 8 cores or more (?) and Flexi 8.0 which is designed to multi-thread up to 2 cores at least currently. The reason for at least...

Hey there everyone, I'm wanting to ask for all of your personal opinions on a new very high-powered computer workstation we will be putting in at one of our shops. The main purpose of the computer will be to run a Mimaki JV3 digital printer, but plans are in the future to get either another...

I'm unsure why it's believed that the hardware used for Mac computers is superior to those found in PC systems. At one time long ago, yes Mac was famous for having a higher quality system. However, today you can customize computers with far superior quality components. The average iMac uses...

I've heard that you can manually enable Windows XP 32-bit to recognize more than 2.8 GB by changing a couple lines in a configuration file. However, Windows XP 64-bit should recognize a full 8 GB without reconfiguring it. I honestly always had horribly bad luck with Intel for years and years...

We currently have a system running FlexiPRO v8.1 on Windows XP 64-bit. So far in the last three months that it has been running on this XP there have not been any incompatibility issues. We've noticed some program issues but they have occurred on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows XP systems so it...

I guess I just must be confused on this. I was originally told that RAID 10 is basically what you have explained here as RAID 5. Four hard drives required, two are striped and the other two a mirror of that striping. Instead, using RAID 5 what would be the disk space usage/availability? For...

There are a few causes for why a file would make a backup stop and throw an error like that. First, if it is a Windows component file (and thus in use by Windows) then the backup program would not be able to copy this file. (Try selecting and copying all the files in your My Documents folder...

Speaking of RAID 1/5/etc. I was somewhat curious of the difference between using a RAID 5 or a RAID 10 hard drive configuration for redundancy. I was told that with both these you can recover a dead hard drive by inserting a new one and the system with rebuild the information in a way. Is...

I've heard quite a few people here where I go to school (University of Kansas School of Engineering) that they've had problems with WD external hard drives. Mostly it is what has been stated here, hit and miss if the computer will recognize them when you plug them in. I have a very small...

Multiple redundant backups is one of the biggest reasons we are installing file servers capable of doing RAID 10, as well as additional backups either to external drive to be taken off premise, or directly to off premise backups. Quickbooks itself has an option to do automatic off premise...

Remote access is a wonderful features of Windows XP Pro and several Linux distros. We haven't implemented it at our shop yet, but it is one thing we will be working to get going when we put in our new file server. Since there aren't any real computer people around Northwest Kansas where the...

It could be the version of flexi perhaps. I know that version 8.1 has a lot higher system requirements than version 7.6 . There are a lot of other possible causes, such as what other programs you have open, the size of the file, even your antivirus software. But perhaps the biggest question...

Depending upon your sharing permissions and other tools you wish to use (such as creating up your own email server) XP Pro can be fine for just sharing information really. However, to get more features like your own email server you can either do Windows Server Standard Edition or Linux...