Re: [EXTERNAL] [CONFOCALMICROSCOPY] SSD-RAID for new wide-field microscopy system

Posted by Craig Brideau on
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NVMe M.2 or U.2 solid state drives are about the fastest things possible
these days. If you hooked a pair up in RAID 0 configuration you would have
the fastest practical read/write speed available. This is great for working
with large data sets, but silly for long-term storage. I'd suggest enough
'high speed' drive to handle working on your data sets (however big you
believe they will be) and then, as others have suggested, use a 10 gig
connection to a much larger and (relatively) slower storage system.

Craig

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 10:37 AM Vergara, Leoncio A. <
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> I would second the motion of separating image acquisition from analysis
> and long term storage, especially if you will capture lots of
> multidimensional data sets. You want the acquisition computer to be
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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?
>
> Thanks in advance for your comments and opinions!
>