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Solidworks using SCSI Hard Drives

Solidworks using SCSI Hard Drives

Solidworks using SCSI Hard Drives

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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?

RE: Solidworks using SCSI Hard Drives

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

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RE: Solidworks using SCSI Hard Drives

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.

RE: Solidworks using SCSI Hard Drives

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

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