- [Narrator] Let's take a moment to look through
the requirements for SolidWorks PDM.
As always, a good place to start
is the SolidWorks.com website.
Going under Support, and Hardware & System Requirements,
we see the SolidWorks PDM system requirements.
Now, you'll notice that the RAM disc space and processor
don't have exorbidant requirements.
If you compare this to the SolidWorks 2017
Desktop requirements, it's actually about half as much
of the requirement that you need for your system.
But the thing that you do want to consider
is all of the data that you're going to be storing
on this server or workstation that you're using as a server
to host the archive.
And when you build your vault over time,
it can start out very small,
but then as you gain new employees, take on new projects,
it can grow very quickly from a small 10/20 gigabyte vault
up to 500 gigs, or even a terabyte.
So it's always good to make sure
that you have hard discs installed,
or SSDs, or a RAID system that has more than ample
amounts of space for the foreseeable future.
You want to try to reduce the amount of times
that you move your vault
once you've completed your instillation.
This is going to help reduce the risk of losing data
or having any kind of technical issues
that affect your users.