Hi Everyone,<br><br>Firstly, does anyone have a usb floppy drive I could borrow. I made the mistake of getting a iDeq mini system and it has a major issue where if you try and do any sustained data transfer to a USB device it just crashes out hard.<br>
<br>I am hoping the bios update will fix it but it can only be done from a floppy drive. How 1980s is that!<br><br>Secondly, and this is where it will get your geek juices really really flowing.<br><br>At work we do a lot of GIS reporting (creating reports based on 3d maps) Now I was just speaking to the guy who runs these reports (They get a dozen a week to run or so, depending on what is happening) can't cope.<br>
<br>Until now they have been running on a core duo laptop with 1 GB of ram. I kid you not. Each report takes 48 hours. I suggested they get a super machine ;)<br><br>The data set (40 GB) comes from a SAN.<br><br>Can anyone suggest a high end rig (Money more or less no object) Put simply each 10% quicker it can go, it could save up to two weeks of peddle to metal computing per year.<br>
<br>I was thinking along the lines of a top of the line AMD (This program can do 64 bit computing but doesn't do multiple cpus that efficiently)<br><br>Around 24 GB RAM<br>2 * 15K SATA 500 GB in a raid stripe config.<br>
1 GB NIC as the data comes from a fibre<br>bonded FC4 Fibre cards.<br>1 GB Dual head video card with onboard acceleration.<br><br>Lastly, does anyone have any experience of add in Compute boards. I am interested to know, but not going to splash out 2.5K on a board that may or may not improve performance.<br>
<br> Anyhow, interested to know peoples thoughts.<br><br>Stu<br>