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JBJonathan Bond29/07/2011

Would welcome your thoughts on this setup.  Being used for heavily surfaced parts, linear FEA, and non-linear FEA, as well as some simpler assembly work (<500 components)

Base Unit:

            Dell Precision T5500 Workstation (224-4858)

Processor:

            Six Core Intel Xeon Processor E5645, 2.40GHz,12M L3, 5.86GT/s,FPWS T5500

Memory:

            12GB DDR3 ECC SDRAM Memory,1333MHz,6X2GB,Dell Precision TX500

Video Card:

            1GB ATI FirePro V4800,Triple Monitor,2 DP and 1 DVI,Dell Fixed Precision

Hard Drive:

            256GB Solid State Drive,2.5,Fixed Precision TX500

Hard Drive Controller:

            C39 SSD boot + SATA Raid 5 drives, 4 drive configuration , T5500/T3500

Floppy Disk Drive:

            No Floppy Drive, Dell Precision

Operating System:

            Windows 7 Ultimate,Media,64-bit, Fixed Precision, English

TBU:

            Mini-Tower Chassis Configuration,Dell Precision T3400,T5500

CD-ROM or DVD-ROM Drive:

            16XDVD-ROM Data Only Dell Precision TX500

Additional Storage Products:

            500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s with NCQ and 16MB DataBurst Cache, DellPrecision TX500 (341-8581)

Controller Option:

            PERC6/i SAS/SATA Hardware RAID Card - For Connecting Internal Hard Drives, Dell Precision T7400 (341-9043)

  3rd Hard Drive

            500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s with NCQ and 16MB DataBurst Cache, DellPrecision TX500 (341-8581)

  4th Hard Drive

            500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s with NCQ and 16MB DataBurst Cache, DellPrecision TX500 (341-8581)

HDD configuration is 256gb SSD boot + 1.0tb usable Raid5 (3x 7200rpm hdd) for document storage.

Thoughts?