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I've downloaded the Nik Collection a few hours ago and I've played with it on a few images. As far as I can tell the latest Camera Raw seems to be at least as good as this collection and probably better and more integrated. I don't think I'll be using it, maybe the denoising function is a bit better than what is available in PS. Anyway, it's free so give it a try.

Hi, I'm about to buy a 6(or 8) bays NAS to store all my archived files from older storage(actually collected in obsolete Ethernet NAS and some spare USB2/3 external drives), and also to get a centralized storage for new data to use from different workstations. I will access data quite often and my files tend to be very large so for me it's important to have good read performance but it's also crucial to have a secure redundant system. I'll use WD RED(3 or 4TB) drives, and Areca thunderbolt NAS that should provide over 1000MB/s read/write speed in RAID0 or ~800MB/s in RAID5. I'm also considering RAID6 to get better redundancy, 10 is out of my budget. In over 20 years I've never had any trouble with HDD/SSD(internal or external), and I'm wondering if a RAID setup is more prone to failure than a standard disk. What is your experience and what is your preferred RAID setup? How often an HDD tends to fail inside a RAID? Thanks in advance:)

3.200$ and only 1300 points in Cinebench15? Doesn't look a good deal to me. I've builded my 4 nodes 4930K based for about 4.000$, the overall score is about 5000points in CB15.

No. You can build an I7 4930k node for about 1000$, probably the same price for a 5820K(but if you need more than 16GB RAM it will be pricier for now).

I've 4 nodes 4930k based, very happy with them. Even with the 5820k on the market the 4930k still make sense because currently both DDR4 and x99 motherboard are pricier. I've used a 20$ GPU(asus radeon 5450 1GB), work flawlessly. Agree with Jason Stewart about the SSD, 120GB is more than enough.

Good monitor for the price. Very useful for some programs that can benefit from lot of space and large format, of course is useless when you are just reading emails or browsing the web. It take some time to get used to it and you need to rethink many softwares interfaces to get the best out of it. Overall I'm happy with my purchase, I'll look at 4K when software and hardware will be more mature and when price will be cheaper.

Re upload the pictures of the monitor.

I've edited my post and added a link to another forum but apparently now I've to wait for a moderator to check my post before it become available again. If needed I can upload the pictures again when I'll be back to office.

I'm using the new LG since june and all I've to say about it is already posted by the OP. Here are a couple pictures and a full res screenshot(edit, the screenshot have been resized, for the full res check this http://forum.vrayforc4d.com/threads/4k-monitors.16060/#post-118872 ):

Is not easy to answer, it really depends on the complexity of your projects and your deadline. For somebody one pc is more than enough while somebody really needs many machine to deliver the job in time. I'm personally using one Xeon workstation and 4x 6core i7 nodes and my final render @4k are normally completed in about an hour or less.

Seems very unlikely. Maybe if you are just using it for very simple scenes, start to throw at your machine complex interiors with tons of polygons, materials and lights and you will see that modern CPUs will match and easily exceed GPU performance(even Vlado says so, you better to believe to him;) ).

Seems it works fine for this guy from the Chaosgroup forum(registration required): http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthread.php?78805-new-MAC-PRO&p=626739#post626739 "Vray RT GPU OpenCL: With the latest beta Catalyst drivers it works flawlessly"