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Wow, excellent value there! Thanks for sharing.\On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com> wrote:
So I put together the cheapo RAID and I'm quite happy with the performance. The $60 enclosure from monoprice.com automatically set up the RAID using its own hardware controller. USB 3.0 speeds looking great. I'm using 2x 2 TB Hitachi 7200rpm Deskstars in RAID 0
Getting 191 MB/s read average. seek times are around 16 ms, which is no SSD but it's not bad for 4 TB storage under $400.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/233/screenhunter10jun061419.jpg/
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Søren Christensen <soren@desilence.net> wrote:
I am quite happy for the ocz vertex drives as well - the vertex 3 max iops drives have never let me down. The black magic and aja disc tests ticks them in at about 450-500MB/s read and write (with sata 3)
The new FusionIO offering also seems like a really interesting option for workstations (depending on price point)
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On 04/06/2012, at 21:03, Louai Abu-Osba < me@louai.org> wrote: Thanks for the intel Teddy! I'm slapping the SSD into my laptop, but I wouldn't mind an external raid. Thanks for posting all that. Which external enclosure did you get?
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, after some research, I decided to go the cheap route and get an external USB 3.0 / eSata RAID-enabled HDD enclosure, then purchased two 7200rpm 2TB hitachi drives for use in a RAID 0 config. total cost was around $400 for close to 5 gbps performance. There are similar setups out there like the Lacie 2-big drives, but I have heard they have awful USB 3.0 support (constantly dropping connection) and they are a lot more expensive. Buffalo also makes some USB 3.0 / esata external RAID systems but again, all the reviews I read said they have awful reliability and / or performance issues. Additionally G-Drive, while reliable, is expensive for the config I wanted, and not to mention their new fastest configs are thunderbolt-only. Which as a PC guy is not happening.
Louai - OCZ just released the Vertex 4 drives, which are blazingly fast and relative to other new SSD releases extremely reasonable in price. I would have gone for two of these if I didn't need a lot more storage. I may still get one for a new OS drive on my render machine
http://thessdreview.com/latest-buzz/ocz-releases-agility-4-ssd-at-record-low-ssd-prices-for-a-new-release/
http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Industrys-Highest-Performance-2-5-Inch/dp/B007RARHSO/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1338830616&sr=1-2
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com> wrote:
I was going to post something like this too. Ocz makes some of the best ssds but I am also looking for a USB 3.0 drive with around a TB of very fast raided storage. Suggestions?
On Jun 3, 2012 4:47 PM, "Louai Abu-Osba" < me@louai.org> wrote:
Speaking of hard drives, are there any recommendations for the newest generation of SSDs? I'm looking for application cache as well as system.
-louai On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com> wrote:
Found the plugins after I posted, particularly useful was the split exr layers to comps script in that package, also definitely noticed the speed boost in file handling.
Now I just need faster storage and more hard drive space. These fluid sims and exr sequences eat up space like nothing else.
Speaking of which, I need faster hard drives.
On Jun 3, 2012 3:48 PM, "Todd Kopriva" < kopriva@adobe.com> wrote:
Brendan has updated the ProEXR plug-ins beyond what is included in After Effects. I recommend installing the new version for the speed boost:
http://fnordware.blogspot.com/2012/04/proexr-17-available.html
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> Subject: Re: [AE] Best open EXR tools?
>
> I haven't upgraded to CS6 yet but it sounds like you still need to use
> the ProEXR plugins. I was hoping for better integration of EXRs in
> After Effects with CS6, unfortunately that doesn't seem to have
> happened, but I will keep my fingers crossed for the next version...
> the pain with using a plugin to access EXR channels is that it changes
> the rendering order from what is 'normal' and so masks can be effected,
> and I don't think frame blending works at all.
>
> AFAIK to use EXRs in After Effects you just use the free After Effects
> plugins, which were also included with CS5.5, so I don't think you need
> to buy anything if you're only using AE.
>
> -Chris
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>
> On 03/06/2012, at 6:46 AM, Teddy Gage wrote:
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> What tools do you guys use for compositing 3D exported open
> .exrs? Is it still the ProEXR plugin or is there something better? or
> free? I know photoshop can't view multiple layered EXRs at this point
> right?
> Thanks
>
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