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Building an Editing Workstation Part 3: Hard Drive
Share In my first two posts on building an editing workstation, I covered the motherboard / processor and memory and video cards. In this last post, I want to cover the other really crucial component of any workstation, the hard drive. Hard Drive The hard drives you throw into your system and their configuration can [...]
Building an Editing Workstation Part 2: Memory & Video Cards
Share Now that you’ve got your motherboard and processor (covered in Building an Editing Workstation Part 1), let’s take a look at memory and video cards. Memory This is the one area that you can splurge on without spending a whole lot. I’d recommend throwing at least 4GB of memory into your workstation. By today’s [...]
Building an Editing Workstation Part 1: Motherboard / Processor
Share The best thing about technology is that the more it advances, the less it costs. Today you can get a 1TB 7200-rpm hard drive for under a hundred bucks. Ten years ago, that might’ve gotten you a 10GB hard drive. The same goes for memory. Today you can get 6GB of DDR3 RAM for [...]
