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SSD recommendation

SSD recommendation

SSD recommendation

(OP)
Hi,
Can anybody recommend a SSD say around 500Gb, I'm running NXNastran mostly linear statics sol 101 and sol701 (explicit Adina). Platform is a Dell T5400 with 24Gb of ram and 2quad cores.

I know it needs to be fast but have no experience of what to look for!

Many thanks

RE: SSD recommendation

While I can't speak directly with respect to NX Nastran, I'm running an HP EliteBook 8570W laptop in which we've replaced the original harddrive with a Samsung 500Gb SSD 840 series drive and it works great for normal NX work.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
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RE: SSD recommendation

Hello!,
Yes, of course!!. I run SSD with FEMAP & NX NASTRAN and .. is simply great!!. Is the best improvement you should add to your system, appart of having enough RAM memory (24 GB is not bad, but better increase as much as possible, it is critical for running NX Nastran with success!!).

Take a look to this post:
http://iberisa.wordpress.com/2014/01/03/requisitos...

If your machine is a workstation (not a laptop) then the best improvement is to mount a RAID-0 based in SSDs, say 4 SSD of 128 GB each = 512 GB !!, to allocate the NX NASTRAN "SCRATCH" directory.
Best regards,
Blas.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Blas Molero Hidalgo
Ingeniero Industrial
Director

IBERISA
48011 BILBAO (SPAIN)
WEB: http://www.iberisa.com
Blog de FEMAP & NX Nastran: http://iberisa.wordpress.com/

RE: SSD recommendation

My first generation SSD was a RAID10 array of 4 providing 667GB of usable space. After 7 months of intense use, first one then another burned out. We replaced all four with second generation drives, which have performed well for 2 years now. These provided the best increase in computer performance for large assembly models, along with maxing out CPU cores and RAM.

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