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Originally Posted by Jon T
Do you know what a typical size may be for one of the AutoCAD files, does the NAS have enough space for now/the future?
Not knowing the network topology, how many workstations etc, this may not be a issue, but has the network got enough headroom/spare bandwidth and speed to cope with the backups without causing slowdown?
Sorry, not trying to be difficult, just helping you to make sure you've got all bases covered.
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most of our cad drawings are a 200-400kb , and this is for quite detailed electrical schematics but ga layouts get much bigger. now this may differ depending if the client has any add-on packages integrated into autocad and how detailed the layout/schematics are.
i.e if i draw a control panel then i would use different layers and colour's for for various components, in the end the overall layout may end up being a meg or so and depending on how many drawings there are in a package it does start to mount.
as for hardware, i always found that plenty of memory and a good gfx card were top of the list - i do a bit at home on my pc when i don't have time and autocad runs well enough on my 8800gts, although i must admit that i don't deal with 3d work