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    plan of attack for replacing DroboFS?

    So with this new information, it looks like the "economical" option would be to grab another Drobo, and have it an our current work together? And the ideal route being to get two completely new systems. Levak I agree with you 100% about having a 3rd party setting this all up. Just a matter of...
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    plan of attack for replacing DroboFS?

    I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought about that as well. A more elegant solution overall is very much needed, it seems. Especially now with how old ours is, and never shut off.
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    plan of attack for replacing DroboFS?

    Thanks for the feedback, guys. It looks like the drives are rather slow as well (5400), so I'm sure that contributes. I'm unsure of the redundancy of the Drobo, drives have failed before and have been replaced without loss. But if we were to lose everything on it, it would be catastrophic. File...
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    plan of attack for replacing DroboFS?

    It is. As far as price range I'm sorry to say I am really not sure. As this is pretty much a blind situation, and also part of the reason I was looking for the best solution, and maybe a more economical solution, that way we have a few possibilities to explore. As far as storage goes, we still...
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    plan of attack for replacing DroboFS?

    Our small shop uses an older DroboFS for project/data storage, and accessing it can sometimes be quite a slow task (especially for me, when I'm dealing with Adobe files that range from 20mb - 1GB). I've posted here and other places regarding various PC upgrades for myself and co workers, and...
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    Recommendations for new main drive, and scratch disk drive?

    According to Dell I'm sitting at max of 16gb for the work machine. (sorry, disregard my signature, as it is referring to my home PC, which is also out of date).
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    Recommendations for new main drive, and scratch disk drive?

    Well currently the PC is sitting at 16GB, not positive if it can go up further (I believe it is currently maxed out), which is why I was looking at adding a scratch. In the other topic it was mentioned that a SSD would possibly not be good as a scratch, as it would wear out quickly from so much...
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    Recommendations for new main drive, and scratch disk drive?

    As noted in my other thread last week (http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1698728), I'm looking to improve performance on my work design PC. My options seem to of come down to upgrading my hard drive, and adding in a scratch drive (possibly as a Raid 0) for Photoshop. I'd like to do just a...
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    Design PC with some slow downs (huge PS files)

    I had made a thread a while back about some other issues, and one point that was brought up was to get a scratch disk drive. What are your opinions on this? Thanks for your reply.
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    Design PC with some slow downs (huge PS files)

    I'm a graphic designer for a sign company, that also does a lot of vehicle wraps. Problem is I sometimes get some slow downs when working in these giant template files (for example, current one is 18.7" x 8.5" at 720 DPI, for the side of a ford escape). Is there anything that can be improved on...
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    work design pc (illustrator/photoshop), big files, occasionally sluggish performance

    Thanks for the info, E4g1e, and Danny, much appreciated! I'll pass it along to my boss. I guess for now, atleast, I can work on the files locally, then save them off to the drobo later. What would you recommend to replace the drobo, if we do go that route?
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    work design pc (illustrator/photoshop), big files, occasionally sluggish performance

    No looks like just one. There is plenty of space on it, though, could I set up another partition, or something?
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    work design pc (illustrator/photoshop), big files, occasionally sluggish performance

    That was probably my misreading the DXDiag for the display tab. The 4079MB is listed next to "Approx Total Memory".
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    work design pc (illustrator/photoshop), big files, occasionally sluggish performance

    All the files I work with are on a network drive (Drobo FS). http://www.drobo.com/products/professionals/drobo-fs/index.php
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    work design pc (illustrator/photoshop), big files, occasionally sluggish performance

    On my work PC, I spend a lot of time with huge photoshop/illustrator files, and sometimes things get really sluggish, or sometimes even crashing. Is there anything we can do to improve my performance (hardware, or otherwise)? Dell Studio XPS 8100 Intel Core i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz 2.80GHz ATI...
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