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Those of you who work at a firm with several workstations and a few servers, do you keep all of your files on your hard drive, or on the servers?

 

Also, the resources like maps and such, do you keep those locally?

 

I am trying to get a workstation together and was wondering if it'd save a lot of time with keeping things local. The servers will be new dual xeons with 2 gigs of ram, so they won't be slow.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

Sorry for posting two topics at once, but time is tight and I was hoping to get feedback on both (that, and I forgot to ask in the last post ;-)

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ahhh now I see where you posted it and it wasn't what I thought.

 

I really think it depends on the network you are on and how well it was put together.

 

I personally hate working off the server and have all my files on my local machine and keep the backup on the server.

 

However our IT staff does not like that too much but I get way less file corruption then anyone else so it does the trick for me.

 

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It should be a pretty good system. They are getting new servers and the network is not that old (all of the workstations are Dell 2.8s with FX1000s and 18" LCDs - not too bad for an architecture office!).

 

I'll probably just keep it on the network, make it easier to feel comfortable with the backups (they'll have mirrored servers, with one off site - crazy, imo).

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If you're are going to network render, you have to place all your scene assets in a directory that all the render-farm clients can get to, and a common place for them to write frames. This means placing your resources on the network someplace.

At my old job, I had a UNIX guru in our IT department set up a dedicated server running Free-BSD for this sole purpose. It had redundancy and was backed up, plus the (free) software ran fast on very little processing power (you gota love UNIX) so the machine was pretty cheap to build and maintain. I just mapped a drive letter to it and away I went.

Have fun!

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