| The thread others in Adobe pointed me to on this issue is here:
The advice there is Premiere-centric, but in short, for 3 drives, one for OS and programs, one for media and projects, and the SSD for previews, cache, and exports.
Four drives is preferred, with 2 of them in a RAID 0. Then the advice is a solo drive for OS and programs, the SSD for cache, and the RAID for media, projects, previews, and exports.
Regardless, SSD for caches.
If you were going 3 drives, and almost exclusively AE, your first choice for configuration was good, as AE is more serial in nature than Premiere.
- Chris
On May 17, 2012, at 10:32 PM, Robert Houghton wrote:
Primarily After Effects
although I have been working more Premiere Pro into my workflow as
of late. I will be adding a GTX580 to the system which helps both
applications.
-Rob
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Robert Houghton
Houghton Media
Motion Graphics, Compositing, Animation
www.houghtonmedia.com
On 5/17/2012 9:28 PM, Chris Meyer wrote:
When
you say "for CS6", are you talking just After Effects, or multiple
programs in the suite?
- Chris
On May 17, 2012, at 8:11 PM, Robert Houghton wrote:
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.
>
> carey
>
> On May 17, 2012, at 1:13 PM, Rendernyc
wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> The cache will clear itself out when
it starts getting full based on age
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> On May 17, 2012, at 2:03 PM, Michael
Malone < mmalone@mac.com>
wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> mike
>>>
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