I just last month finished assembling and installing a new desktop computer after using my previous desktop for over seven years.
I put an AMD 6 core Thuban 1100T on a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 motherboard with 16 MB of memory. I have three drives in it: System (200 GB), Data (500 GB), and Photo (1000 GB).
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate SP1. By moving the Pagefile off the system drive and disabling Hibernation, I run with the Operating System using 24 GB in a 55 GB partition. I set it up this way so that I could move it to a 60 GB Solid State Drive (SSD) in the future, and so that I could back it up easily (with Acronis) to a compressed 16 GB file.
I\'m glad I got that power because I recently did a stitch of a multi-row HDR pano on it. There are two rows of 12 panels and each has three exposures. Thus 72 shots are assembled into a 170 MPixel image. It took four and a half hours with Hugin and ran two cores most of the time but briefly used all six cores at once a few times. The output TIFF file (16 bit) is 1.3 GB. The Photoshop file with three layers is 2.9 GB. The JPEG is 88 MB.
Have all your files exist in three copies in two places.
I also have a bare drive slot in it where I put a 1.5 TB bare drive to back up the Data and Photo Drives and a couple of copies (versions) of the 16 GB OS backup. Once a month I swap it for one in the Safe Deposit box at the bank. If I step out of the house for a day I turn off the computer, pull the drive and hide it.
Feb 11, 2012 at 03:12 AM
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