yeah, I dunno about the disabling the protection, would be a conciderable savings but the support, etc is a large part of the yearly lease of the program ($3,600).
I dunno if they will maybe change as USB 3.0 becomes more the norm.
I can't imagine the actual reading from the doggle being such a 'large read' though the jumping back and forward in the Disk section of Resource Manager, is indicating to me that the jumping back and forward of the various files is 'beating up' the hard drive.
Some of the numbers I'm seeing in the disk activity for various files seems scary (in the 'Write B/min' column I am seeing numbers approaching 200,000,000).
Up until recently I had been dealing with file sizes of 5-10MB. With the BIM (Building Information Modeling, Revit and Bentley products) becoming more the norm, the file sizes are going to explode in the upcoming years.
Working for a smaller firm in difficult economic times. Upgrades need to be worthwhile and keep to minimum. Apart from the cost of parts, there is some time loss when upgrading a designer's computer, and the IT guy is also a cost. I've therefore been holding off upgrading to the SSDs. Had been more because of concern of reliability (other than the intel but wasn't going with the 100MBs write speed for a $400,160GB drive). Seems now though that the Sandforce are able to provide speed (random and seq), and reliability, so thinking about pulling the trigger, and want it to be like the deer hunter - 'one shot'
Given the improvement when these things are RAID'd together, I am interested in that option. However the lack of TRIM suport in RAID is a killer for me. Computer downtime and troubleshooting in the Design department would negate the saving from the improvement in performance of the new drive. It was originally the Revo drive I was looking at, but the garbage collection doesn't seem to be effective, whereas with the IBIS drives, the garbage collection seems to be very effective. The IBIS are conciderably more expensive, however if I was going to get the benifit of it, for a long period, given that it's how I put food on the table, it is not 'unattainable'. However, given Anand's review indicated that only a certain segment will see the benifit, I'm not looking to just throw money away...Which is what was getting me around to looking for an indication of my current queue depth. Some research in my future.
Yeah those Quadros seem to be the ferrai of video cards. It seems Nvidia makes these (as apposed to EVGA, BFG...) and also provide the support and custom drivers. Those drivers are a key part. With my GTX 260 (waiting for Kempler unless I get alot more 3D work before that), will be fine in ACAD until I start trying to move around in a full shaded render mode, and then it hardly works. With Quadro cards, there seems to be some juice (code) in there that allow users to move around almost the same as wireframe. My program, can render scences in 3D with the GTX way easier that ACAD, though ACAD can produce much more photo relistic rendering and ACAD can save the file in 5-10 seconds, where I can be waiting nearly a minute on autosprink.
Anyways Emulex, didn't mean for this to be so long, but figured I'd paint the picture in case it brought up any insight/thought, etc.
Thanks again for the input