Thread: AutoCAD hardware
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Old 11-04-2009, 12:27   #12
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Re: AutoCAD hardware
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Originally Posted by DaiNasty View Post
Yes, it's for a business client. I've been wondering about xeons myself. A dual-cpu board may be the best way to go.

AutoCAD is tested and certified with a restricted list of graphics cards. These have drivers specifically designed to work with the program.
You have to use one from the list to get best results.
Are the CAD drawings going to be stored locally? If so you need to look at backup solutions.

What RAID level to use is a matter of choice, If you go with RAID 0(striping) you'll get nice and fast read/write performance but no increased data integrity/protection. Capacity for this RAID level will be the sum of both drives.

If you go for a RAID 1 array(mirroring), you've got fast read performance(write is usually not enhanced that much), and good data integrity in that if one drive fails, your PC will still work with the one good drive, you can then rebuild your array when you replace the faulty drive. Capacity of a RAID 1 array is half of it's total capacity though.
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