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    New i7 Photoshop CS5 PC

    Thank you very much for your precious advise. With respect to Photoshop and how to optimise the use of the scratch disks (in my previous rig, I had a HD Raptor dedicated to it) I would think now on the following under the following assumptions: - my OS will be Seven 64 bit - I'll put 16...
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    New i7 Photoshop CS5 PC

    Dear experts, I am a photographer (still resisting to the MAC mania) and work mostly with Photoshop CS5 (tons of plugins) on big files (from 100 Mb to 500 Mb with all the layers). I use on a daily basis Capture One, Lightroom and dedicated print softwares. In addition, I do some audio (in...
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    Back up solution for Raid 0 config?

    Dear all, before starting a Raid 0 configuration (for OS and applications, i.e. : Windows XP Pro 64, Photoshop CS3 and many plug-ins, Capture One, Lightroom, Qimage,...) on two VelociRaptor 150 Mega with a Supermicro X7DAE motherboard (2x Xeon 5130 and 8 Gig Ram), is there on the market a...
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    Help on Raid 0: to follow my last post /

    Dear all, first thank you for you help (in trying to find a solution for transfering my active partition to a new Raid 0 configuration). It does not seem to be very simple but I will try a risky transfer. But I discover something really worrying : it seems by reading your answers that...
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    Help on Raid O: how to use a ghost image of current OS (which is not Raid O) and transfer it to the Raid stray?

    Dear all, My current configuration is (built in September 2006) - a dual Xeon (5130, dual core, 2.0 Ghz) based on a Supermicro motherboard X7DAE (Chipset Intel 5000X), see specs on the following link: supermicro motherboard - 4 Gig of RAM (FB-DIMM) - my graphic card is a PNY...
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    Photoshop dream box... Upgrade or change totally current config?

    Thank you very much for your advice (which slash my budget but who would complain in today's situation...!). Just two additional questions: - I definitively intend to move to Photoshop CS4 the day my favorite plug-ins are rewritten to support full 64 bit PS (in the coming months, I hope...
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    Photoshop dream box... Upgrade or change totally current config?

    Dear Forum members, I am confused with all announcements and news coming from the PC hardware world (new Nehalem CPUs recently introduced in the Mac Pro). The question I have today is the following: taking into consideration my current self made configuration (september 2006), should I...