[ Thanks to Carla Schroder for this
link. ]
“Dream Studio 11.10 is a 2GB ISO that expands to 5.6GB after
installation. You can run it from a live CD or USB stick, but given
the higher performance requirements of audio and video production
you really want to run it from a hard disk. While we’re on the
subject of hard drives, don’t get excited over 6Gb/s SATA hard disk
drives. They’re not much faster than old-fashioned 3Gb/s or 1.5Gb/s
SATA HDDs, and you need a compatible motherboard or PCI-e
controller. Put your extra money into a good CPU instead. Audio and
video production, and editing photo and image files are
CPU-intensive. Bales of RAM never hurts, and a discrete video card,
even a lower-end one, gives better performance than cheapo onboard
video that uses shared system memory.“My studio PC is powered by a three-core AMD CPU, 4GB RAM, an
Nvidia GPU, and a couple of 2TB SATA 3Gb/s hard drives. It’s plenty
good enough, though someday I’m sure I’m going to muscle it up
more. Why? Why not?”