Re: SSD-RAID for new wide-field microscopy system

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Hi Mirco

Honestly I see no reason to have so much memory and such a high spec graphics card for an acquisition computer. Regarding the HDs, I would keep the 2TB and add extra space non SSD. Then just automate data flow from the fast to the slow drive. 2TB extra for 6000$ is just too much and might be too short anyway.

Just my 2 cents
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> On 23 May 2019, at 14:38, Mirco Martino <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> we are buying a new fluorescent microscope wide-field system. The system include a workstation with 64GB DDR4 RAM, 11GB of graphic card, 512 gb of memory and SSD-RAID of 2TB. There is an option to increase the SSD-RAID to 4TB for  about 6000$ extra. The system will be use for both fixed materiel imaging and for live-imaging with time-laps, z-stack, tiling and multi-fluorophores experiments. I was wondering if it is worth to invest those extra money for this option or not. This will be the first time we will have time-laps experiments, so I don't know what to expect as pictures size.
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> What do you think?
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> Thanks in advance for your comments and opinions!
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