Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #43734
From: Robert Houghton <gfxguy74@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] Clear disk cache based on a project ?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 19:11:38 -0700
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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So what would be the ideal arrangement for CS6 then if there were 2 7200rpm drives and one 120GB SSD?

SSD System disc/Cache
2x 7200 HDD Raid 0 for Media?

or

7200 HDD for System
SSD all by itself for cache
7200 HDD for media?

Or would it be worth it to buy a fourth drive (either SSD or 7200rpm drive) The former for System and the latter for striping with the other 7200rpm drive for media?

    -Rob
 
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Robert Houghton
Houghton Media
Motion Graphics, Compositing, Animation
www.houghtonmedia.com

On 5/17/2012 5:41 PM, Brian Higgins wrote:
Agreed.  You might be able to scrub around a little more smoothly, but I'd skip it unless you're doing stereo 4K work or something similarly bandwidth intensive.  

-bH

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Dan Ramirez <ramirezdan@gmail.com> wrote:
A single 6g SSD is orders of magnitude faster than a comparable 7200rpm drive. I'd skip RAID, but I tend to avoid complexity when I can.

On May 17, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Carey Dissmore <carey@imugonline.com> wrote:

> I'm starting to spec out a new machine and an SSD for the cache is definitely in order. It'll be 6G SATA-connected at minimum, but I'm actually considering perhaps RAID-0 stripe of two 6G SSD's to improve performance and reduce latency all-the-more. Anyone have any thoughts on how much of a difference that would make in AE? Worth doing? Assume fully modern mobo/chipset machine.
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> carey
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> On May 17, 2012, at 1:13 PM, Rendernyc wrote:
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>> You can set your disk cache to a folder for each project but would have to change this manually when u switch projects in the prefs.
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>> The cache will clear itself out when it starts getting full based on age
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>> Just remember the cache files aren't project dependent. If you have a comp that is cached in multiple aep's it uses the single cached frames for all.
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>> On May 17, 2012, at 2:03 PM, Michael Malone <mmalone@mac.com> wrote:
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>>> The new persistent disk cache is super awesome and will only get better when I get a dedicated SSD. One thing that would make it even better is the ability to clear the cache based on a particular project. I'm always juggling several projects at once and when I finish one I would like to clear the cache of that project.
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>>> Although, I guess it isn't that important as the old stuff will get flushed as new stuff happens. Still might be handy. I wonder if that kind of thing is scriptable?
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>>> mike
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