So my High School just got new computers this year and we have been using them all year so far in my vgw class. They are so slow, i have never seen a computer boot so slow and load applications so slowly. I believe they are Dell Precision T3600 "worstation" computer with a Xeon cpu and low end Quadro workstation gpu (I think i remember i saw it was a K600 or something around-lower than that). I personally believe they are way over priced at possibly $1200 or even more for what model they got.
Anyways, when the POST screen comes up it says something about a RAID controller so i suspect they are using a raid config instead of a AHCI configuration, and they only have one standard HDD so there is no point to using raid, right? Could using raid be what is slowing down the computers so much? We are using Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and right now using mostly After Effects; it is now typical for AE to crash, and it takes forever to render single frames and also an entire clip. Moving data to and from the hdd is also quite slow and everybody in class complains about it. If these are really "workstation" computers why are they so slow and can barely handle After Effects?
Could the raid setting be slowing down the comps so much or maybe its the hdd itself? What else could it be? Im surprised our school's help desk tech hasnt fixed this unless my teacher hasnt reported it to him. I would love to be able to help my class and entire school with this problem, so please help and shed some light here for me.
Anyways, when the POST screen comes up it says something about a RAID controller so i suspect they are using a raid config instead of a AHCI configuration, and they only have one standard HDD so there is no point to using raid, right? Could using raid be what is slowing down the computers so much? We are using Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and right now using mostly After Effects; it is now typical for AE to crash, and it takes forever to render single frames and also an entire clip. Moving data to and from the hdd is also quite slow and everybody in class complains about it. If these are really "workstation" computers why are they so slow and can barely handle After Effects?
Could the raid setting be slowing down the comps so much or maybe its the hdd itself? What else could it be? Im surprised our school's help desk tech hasnt fixed this unless my teacher hasnt reported it to him. I would love to be able to help my class and entire school with this problem, so please help and shed some light here for me.