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SCSI drives are worthwhile if you can afford them. The throughput is much greater than IDE and you will notice the difference with applications that need fast drive access. 3D Rendering uses alot of system resources and alot of the response time will depend on the slowest part of the IO system, which is your hard drive. The faster the drive, the better your system response time. Some people may disagree but SCSI has a definite advantage for this type of system.

You could get away with using cheaper SATA drives for a RAID setup, probably RAID 10 would be best (speed benefits of RAID 0 with the redundancy of RAID 1). The downside is you will need more drives and only use half the space on them if you want redundancy. I still say go for SCSI drives :P Either way this system is going to cost you more than $2k :D

righteo. Well what would you suggest then considering a budget of close to $2000 and 2 X 19" CRT's, good audio card (keep hearing about AISO drivers or something), 3D mainly, but also After Effects (so i guess it's gotta be a mid-way between HD and CPU priorities i guess)

As you can see, i've got a sem-complete list already, but interested to see what you think.

cheers.

Yeah 2k retail :D

 

Let me put it this way for you  

 

Seagate 73gb SCSI hard disk  - $770.00ex cost price

 

Seagate 80gb SATA hard disk - $83.75ex cost price

 

the choice is simple :P

Just slightly inflated prices there? :D Depends what RPM drive you're quoting.. You can buy a 73Gb Cheetah Ultra320 10,000rpm... for $455

http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/show_product...HD-SEST373307LW

It's true, a SCSI system will cost alot more than Serial ATA drives.. plus you would need a SCSI controller card too (another $300). but hey, you get what you pay for :D

BTW nice pic there Matt, looks mean!

Thanks, the big version looks awesome! Photo courtesy of Nick's Canon EOS 300D.

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