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Building a system for Lightroom photo editing

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d33pblue said:
- Seasonic makes a 630W modular power supply that might be a better bet for you given the video card you're using.
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umm... 630W for a GTS 450...? It uses 105 idle, 205W load... given the processor is the only other power consuming piece of equiptment at a whopping 95W... he could get away with much less than the 520W...
 
mfenn said:
The 9800GT is a poor choice overall. Get a GTS 450 instead.
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Just like to check why that particular GTS 450? Just because of the price after MIR? I'm reading that getting the rebate out of evga is damned hard work. Any real difference between the gts 450 cards or should I just get the cheapest I can find?
 
To RAID or not to RAID the HDDs?

I'm thinking that as RAID for protection actually protects against so little that might in practice break the machine (theft, fire, software, ...) that it would be better to deploy any mirror disk for backup instead.

Other thoughts welcome.
 
I would much rather put a second hard drive to use in a network/remote backup than a raid array, but I can live with being offline for a few hours while I install a new hard drive/copy files. I also keep all of my clients files on the memory card until they have prints in hand.
 
IanWorthington said:
Just like to check why that particular GTS 450? Just because of the price after MIR? I'm reading that getting the rebate out of evga is damned hard work. Any real difference between the gts 450 cards or should I just get the cheapest I can find?
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Yeah, it was the cheapest back on the 2nd. Just get the cheapest, whichever it happens to be.

IanWorthington said:
More likely to be a formal backup with multiple generations I think, but I think we're agreeing.
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:thumbsup:

Repeat after me: RAID is for uptime, backups are for data integrity!
 
No raid it is then. Thanks 🙂

I quick check on the shelf reveals that the 2TB drives I have there for spares are Seagate Barracuda LPs, 5900 rpm versions. Fine for what they were originally intended (sitting on the shelf with backups or archives), but maybe not quite up to spec for this build.

I'm thinking that the Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 2TB at $120 is probably about best value at the moment. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/HDD-6Gbit,2528.html has it a bit slower than the others it tested against but the next drive up is $50 more, and given that I'm moving all my high activity to the SSD I'm wondering if there's any reason to spend the extra?
 
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IanWorthington said:
I quick check on the shelf reveals that the 2TB drives I have there or spares are Seagate Barracuda LPs, 5900 rpm versions. Fine for what they were originally intended (sitting on the shelf with backups or archives), but maybe not quite up to spec for this build.
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Assuming you have good backups (and you should anyways, right?), they should work perfectly fine for your purposes.

They might not burn up the benchmarks, but realistically, you won't notice a difference


IanWorthington said:
I'm thinking that the Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 2TB at $120 is probably about best value at the moment.
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If you really want to buy a new HD, i would suggest the Samsung
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152245
 
I should really get another for spare/backups/archives even if I use one of these.

That Samsung's only 5400rpm though. Certainly good enough for backups/archive, but as my main data disk? Wouldn't a 7200rpm be better suited?
 
5400RPM-ish drives like the WD Green and 2TB Samsung F4 are perfectly fine for mass storage. I would not go using them for scratch disks though.
 
The WD20EARS is $90 with promo code. It gets even better with the $20 MIR.

I actually like the Samsung F4 more, but not at $100 when I've seen it as low as $60 (during BF though).
 
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