Return-Path: Received: from [208.97.132.66] (HELO homiemail-a77.g.dreamhost.com) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 4826939 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:04:31 +0200 Received: from homiemail-a77.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a77.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 989E79406B for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:05:16 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=louai.org; h=mime-version :in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=louai.org; b=K xRWRS5OYhwqI4zHGQJIRLi5aePiwXZnpw5D/wI/Pp+l88FkbwxvohdSBSb+ma5ZH uzSGOR1R5p8uUhra//UYbze2ey1VJEJQ/UMQdPylM0yfXDN/njwodQ7WtCsUWZD1 yKA8vrZ4hge5myY4yij+7NAqwuQf2P2CoNlAE77G10= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=louai.org; h=mime-version :in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=louai.org; bh=j3o51lK +TVlMjueQqeWLnl8UEB0=; b=mNKiaj+F1GsUNHbNEosVXUl9PKBPqadbeXEh/tc tie7yYVyRGdlZbzmZOC4pkMTrP/kHB8ugl9ejCPkGnhCHeLt7w/MTyIIXBP9ET33 2WcOyRJdbgybDMLPy6l4paIOt0ZokuW7k4Y9t2jCutQ2AaYsNw7eO+6hu84XGsa6 G6yo= Received: from mail-vb0-f41.google.com (mail-vb0-f41.google.com [209.85.212.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: me@louai.org) by homiemail-a77.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C37049405C for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:05:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by vbkv13 with SMTP id v13so4842718vbk.28 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:05:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.99.234 with SMTP id et10mr10479293vdb.18.1346094314940; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:05:14 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.56.68 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:04:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Louai Abu-Osba Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:04:44 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [AE] what good is an SSD? To: After Effects Mail List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I recently replaced my system drive with a 256 GB OCZ Vertex 4 SSD and another SSD for media storage. I also have an external two disk 1.5 TB RAID 0. It's incredible how much faster it is to do anything with AE or otherwise. It's well worth the investment. On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Jim Curtis wrote: > Seems to me that a 120 internal drive is too small to efficiently partiti= on. Since the Mac OS free drive space for the VM swapfile and Spotlight in= dex (if you have it enabled), 40G seems awfully puny. I like to keep 80-10= 0 GB free on my boot drive for that purpose. > > But, if you're getting good results, power to ya'. > > Thanks for the info about how the SSD has improved your Ae experience. > > I'm using my 1-2 Gb/s io RAID for my Ae and Pr caches. With both running= , and several projects active, the total size of my cache folders can excee= d 100 GB. > > > > > > > On Aug 27, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Eric James Wood wrote: > >> So i have been working on an AE project with about 50 3d layers, nothing= crazy. 2011 MBP with 2.2GHz i7. It has been a little painful waiting on pr= eviews, etc. >> >> my internal SSD is pretty small at 120 in 2 partitions, 40 and 80GB. 40 = for the system and apps, 80 for some work. So i moved my cache to the SSD t= o try and see if it would help. >> >> CRAP! Made working much much more acceptable. Things that were taking 1-= 5 minutes, now take seconds. I am ordering a 512 SSD for this machine today= and moving some stuff around! >> >> -- >> Eric James Wood >> Helium14 >> >> +1.714.254.5042 | mobile >> >> >> >> +---End of message---+ >> To unsubscribe send any message to > > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to