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AceCad Hardware Outperforms
1st September 2004
AceCad Software’s bespoke hardware division excelled in a recent performance reviewed by Greg Corke, for the November/December 2003 issue of AEC Magazine:
AceCad Hardware Imagine 3200 HT
When budgeting for a new workstation, processing speed, memory and graphics typically take precedence over hard drive performance. But a new workstation from AceCad Hardware, which features a more cost effective and fast hard drive subsystem, could make you think again.
Serial ATA
A relatively new hard drive technology called Serial ATA, the natural evolution from Parallel ATA (better known as IDE/ATA). Serial ATA came to us this month through the latest machine from CAD hardware specialist AceCad Hardware, the 3.2GHz Pentium 4-based Imagine 3200 HT workstation. What’s more, AceCad Hardware has knitted together the hard drive sub system using RAID 0, which shares data across two hard drives, significantly increasing data access speeds. What this boils down to is that AceCad Hardware is able to offer a real alternative to SCSI in terms of performance, but with a much lower cost/Mb ratio, which makes it a particularly attractive solution for those who regularly work with large CAD models.
On Test
When using the workstation under a wide range of CAD applications it was clear that the machine excelled in a number of areas. The most noticeable was when loading up huge models when the RAID 0/serial ATA hard disk subsystem came into full effect, and brought up massive CAD models in a fraction of the time that it would typically take a standard ATA drive.
Conclusions
When AceCad Hardware volunteered its workstation for review, we were promised, and I quote, a "corking" machine, and I have to say we were not disappointed. The Imagine range is positioned as AceCad Hardware’s high-end workstation, and it’s clear to see why - cutting edge performance in all areas and build quality unsurpassed by anything else on the market.
In addition to the core computational and 3D graphics speed, hard disk performance is something that doesn’t often get the attention it deserves. If you’re working on huge models on a day-to-day basis , having a hard drive system that can deliver and save data two or three times quicker than standard solutions, can provide a serious boost to your productivity.
On top of the impressive hard drive system, don’t forget the system is kitted out with a whopping 2Gb of dual channel DDR memory, the fastest Pentium 4 processor currently on the market, a CD and CD/RW, and if you compare this to a similarly specified machine from any other workstation vendor I think you’ll find that extremely hard to beat.
