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Quick version: +1 to the setup Chris describes. I use it and it's fast. Get an extra small SSD if you can for scratch space. 64 GB ones are about $80.
Details version: My latest Mac Pro rig is basically set up like Chris describes: has a a 256GB SSD for system boot, a 64 GB SSD for scratch/temp/previews space, and a 1 TB drive for active projects. As Chris mentions, it would be nice to drop another 1 TB drive and set up a RAID array on my projects drive, but, overall, the system is really fast and I'm happy with the performance. System startup and application startup times are an after-thought. 32 GB of RAM keeps AE fast for multi-processor renders and a 9 TB RAID NAS does Time Machine backups and archives projects.
I'm mainly using AE, Nuke, Maya, and a little bit of Premiere.
If I only had one SSD, I'd make it the system drive and scratch space. Just such a difference in interactivity starting programs.
I'd use the same setup if I was using a PC. It's a good configuration and worth the cost of more expensive SSDs. Both on the workstation and my laptop, installing SSDs has been the most impactful upgrade I've done in the last few years.
- N
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Robert Houghton <gfxguy74@gmail.com> wrote:
I was leaning towards no 1
myself. I do editing about 10% of the time so that would
make sense. The only downside is that I will have to keep that
system drive lean and clean since space is so limited on SSDs. The
one I'm getting will be about 120GB decisions, decisions. Thanks for
the insight Chris.
-Rob
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Robert Houghton
Houghton Media
Motion Graphics, Compositing, Animation
www.houghtonmedia.com
On 5/18/2012 8:12 AM, Chris Meyer wrote:
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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