Solidworks using SCSI Hard Drives

[desCANADA]

Do scsi harddrives greatly improve system proformance with solidworks? Also, can any recommend any sys settings with winXP that will contribute to large assembly models?

 

[SBaugh]

I'm not a big fan of SCSI HDD's. SCSI's in their day were good and did run faster and are work hogs, but with today's IDE's and the use of Ultra ATA's I don't see the benefit anymore. A SCSI HDD has low storage space and a large price tag. The IDE's you can pick up for practically nothing anymore and the Storage space is great. The speed has improved on the IDE's considerably. Most of the new Motherboards support Ultra ATA HDD.

So I'm sure you know my recommendation is for you to get an IDE HDD...IMO

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[Theophilus]

Get an IDE w/7200 or 10000 rpm and you'll have a fast hard drive.




Jeff Mowry
Industrial Designhaus, LLC

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

 

[JNR]

I agree with the other guys - really SCSI is old technology. It was faster in its prime but today has to many other issues and IDE/Ultra ATA, etc. have leapfrogged it in overall performance.

John Richards Sr. Mech. Engr.
Rockwell Collins Flight Dynamics

There are only 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't.

 

[D3sign3r]

Serial ATA is where its at. You can pick up a Western Digital 10,000rpm 74gig at around $350cdn.