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?
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
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.
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