I've been given the green light to spend some money on a new machine. I'm looking into Nvidia's CUDA architecture and considering pairing this with the Asus P6T7 WS SuperComputer motherboard. I'm just wondering if there is anyone out there who has done something similar? How did it go? Does anyone think I could do better or am I headed in the wrong direction? Computing horse power is my goal.
It needs to support multiple hard drives. Mine has five. My C drive has FTK on it, I have a second drive that is dedicated to just the Oracle database for FTK, a third drive for case data, a fourth drive for software tools and a fifth drive for storage and backup. It sounds like you are building your own so you will need a tower case and lots of hard drive cassettes and extra trays and a place on the motherboard to plug them all in. I suppose you get a couple of USB cards and plug in a bunch of USB hard drives. Make sure the case has USB on the front so you can plug in your write blockers. If you want speed then you may as well go for 64 bit OS and 12 or 16 gb of RAM. Just buy the fastest motherboard you can find because it will be obsolete in six months anyway.