CompuServe Messages

Martin, Your times are certainly a significant reason for going with a fast SCSI subsystem. I noticed the advantage a few years ago when I upgraded my ~12ms IDE to an 8.5ms 5400 IDE drive.. major improvement at the time. Now, I certainly need it. Here at work, We've got a Barracuda 2gb, and Fast (not Wide) system, and it's well worth it. (but Wide would be better) I'll be upgrading to one of those 4gb Atlas drives I mentioned real soon (on my TD) Intergraph didn't bundle one on the package, and it's cheaper buying it myself. Do you know if the AV 7200 drives (like Micropolis') are better than a Barracuda/Atlas type drive? I'm not sure if the t-cal stuff is worth it for non AV work. (like page files, tex map loads, etc.) It looks like it's time to upgrade that one IDE system. 🙂 BTW- are your meshes really big, or is most of the RAM needed for film rez tex maps? (or both? <g>) JNJ