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This document provides the specifications of three different workstations from Dell which can be used to acquire images from the Neo 5.5, Zyla 5.5 and Zyla 4.2 USB3 and 10-tap sCMOS cameras.
Andor has provided guidelines as to the amount of data that can be acquired from each workstation based on our test results. For each specification we can recommend the suitability for 3-tap, USB 3.0 or 10-tap sCMOS and the capacity of the PC RAM or SSD for sustained acquisitions.
The specifications for all workstations are outlined below. These PC’s are available to order from Andor and the product codes are defined below.
*It is important to note that the testing of these PC’s was performed using the Neo/Zyla and Andor Solis software. We cannot guarantee that the same results would be achieved using other devices and software packages.
| Camera Type | PC | Capacity of RAM/SSD | Andor Product Code |
| Zyla 5.5 10-Tap & Zyla 4.2 10-Tap | Dell T7910XL with 1 TB SSD in RAID0 | 120,000 12-bit full frame images | WKST-1 WIN |
| Neo 5.5 3-tap / Zyla 5.5 USB3 & 10-Tap / Zyla 4.2 USB3 & 10-Tap | Dell T5810XL with 64 GB RAM | 6,000 12-bit full frame images | WKST-3 WIN |
PC for Zyla 5.5 10-Tap & Zyla 4.2 10-Tap (WKST-1 WIN)
| Item | Recommended and tested by Andor |
| Chassis | T7910XL Tower |
| CPU | E5-2640 v3 (Eight Core, 2.6 GHz) |
| Memory | 8GB (2x4GB) 2133MHz DDR4 ECC RDIMM |
| Boot Drive | 500GB 2.5inch Serial ATA (7.200 Rpm) Hard Drive |
| OS | Windows 10 Pro for Workstations |
| Raid Controller | MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i12Gb/s PCIe SATA/SAS HW RAID controller (1GB cache) |
| RAID Drives | 1TB – 4 x SSD RAID0 >850MB/s – Samsung SM841N |
| Graphics Card | 4GB NVIDIA Quadro K2200 |
| PCIe Slots | x16: Graphics Card x16: Axion 1xE-CL 10-Tap Framegrabber x4: RAID controller x1, x4: free |
PC for Neo 5.5 3-tap and Zyla 5.5 USB3 & 10-Tap and Zyla 4.2 USB3 & 10-Tap (WKST-3 WIN)
| Item | Recommended and tested by Andor |
| Chassis | T5820 Tower XCTO Base |
| CPU | Intel Xeon W-2125 (Quad Core 4.0GHz, 4.5GHz Turbo) |
| Memory | 64GB (4 x 16 GB), DDR4 2666MHz RDIMM ECC |
| Boot Drive | 2.5" 500GB, 7,200rpm SATA Hard Drive/2.5" 256GB SATA Class 20 Sold State Drive |
| Raid Controller | None |
| OS | Windows 10 Pro for Workstations |
| Graphics Card | NVIDIA Quadro P1000, 4GB |
| PCIe Slots | x16: Graphics Card x16: Axion 1xE-CL 10-Tap Framegrabber 2off x4, x1: free |
Date: N/A
Author: Andor
Category: Application Note
