Comments on: Advice on buying new PC http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/advice-on-buying-new-pc/ Thu, 23 May 2013 09:14:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: shazzie http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/advice-on-buying-new-pc/#comment-57642 shazzie Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:19:49 +0000 #comment-57642 Many thanks to all for the advice – much appreciated. Will see if I can add more RAM but I don’t think I will be going for the Quadcor Extreme – just a normal quadcor should do the job.

]]> By: pressler2904 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/advice-on-buying-new-pc/#comment-57620 pressler2904 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:02:45 +0000 #comment-57620 All good answers – I agree that a quad core my be a bit of overkill…

Make sure you have some sort of BACKUP solution in place, whether it’s dual hard drives set to RAID 1 or and external inexpensive tape or disk drive: whatever fits your budget. Believe me, having to restore a failed drive and attempt recover of lost files can get to be a rather expensive proposition rather quickly: I have been involved in situations where recovery of about 160GB of data took well over 20 hours to complete… And most data recovery specialists charge by the MB or hour….

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