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While I agree that the prices are high, I think you have to see this over the lifetime of the microscope. 

A computer which looks like an overkill now, will look pretty old in a few years, I am happy with the Zeiss workstations on our widefield systems. 

The companies have to make sure that they can supply replacement parts for the lifetime of the instrument, so you are not only buying a component, but also piece of mind for the future and maybe some additional quality control at their end. 

But it is sad that things still break down or become obsolete too quickly for the steep price.

Best wishes
Andreas


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From: Guy Hagen <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Fri, May 24, 2019 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: SSD-RAID for new wide-field microscopy system


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Dear Friends:
I generally try to build my own computers, and for my new one I bought a
4TB hard drive $109.

I find this sort of behavior from the microscope companies to be very
offensive. It is the same trick they use when they try to sell you a laser
for $14,000 which you can buy yourself directly from the manufacturer for
less than half that price. I (try to) refuse to deal with them when they
are so blatantly jacking up the prices like this.
cheers,
Guy Hagen

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 7:48 AM Mirco Martino <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Hi all,
>
> we are buying a new fluorescent microscope wide-field system. The system
> include a workstation with 64GB DDR4 RAM, 11GB of graphic card, 512 gb of
> memory and SSD-RAID of 2TB. There is an option to increase the SSD-RAID to
> 4TB for  about 6000$ extra. The system will be use for both fixed materiel
> imaging and for live-imaging with time-laps, z-stack, tiling and
> multi-fluorophores experiments. I was wondering if it is worth to invest
> those extra money for this option or not. This will be the first time we
> will have time-laps experiments, so I don't know what to expect as pictures
> size.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks in advance for your comments and opinions!
>