Return-Path: Received: from gateway02.websitewelcome.com ([74.52.222.226] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 4897285 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:53:41 +0100 Received: by gateway02.websitewelcome.com (Postfix, from userid 5007) id 9E6906FAEAC18; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:56:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from gator1184.hostgator.com (gator1184.hostgator.com [174.121.151.98]) by gateway02.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 933DC6FAEABEC for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:56:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from [24.163.5.74] (port=52940 helo=Neptune) by gator1184.hostgator.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1TY1zx-0002Dj-Oj for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:56:54 -0600 Reply-To: From: "Stephen van Vuuren" To: "'After Effects Mail List'" References: In-Reply-To: Subject: RE: [AE] Semi OT: Yet another mac mini render farm thread Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:56:40 -0500 Organization: SV2 Studios Message-ID: <010c01cdc120$9bcdea50$d369bef0$@sv2studios.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_010D_01CDC0F6.B2F8A5A0" X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 14.0 Thread-index: AQIf+G+59s9pTcOVBnKdXintOuSMNZdCTu8A Content-Language: en-us X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - gator1184.hostgator.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - media-motion.tv X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - sv2studios.com X-BWhitelist: no X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Source-Sender: (Neptune) [24.163.5.74]:52940 X-Source-Auth: stephen@sv2studios.com X-Email-Count: 23 X-Source-Cap: c3RlcGhlbnY7c3RlcGhlbnY7Z2F0b3IxMTg0Lmhvc3RnYXRvci5jb20= This is a multipart message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_010D_01CDC0F6.B2F8A5A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > A. You can easily recover 50% of the purchase price of a Mini on a 2-year resale, B. it takes two seconds to rotate the bottom cap off to get at the RAM slots - the putty knife thing was the OLD version, C. any significant storage should be Thunderbolt-attached, not internal. A - for a render farm used properly, by 2 years, most of the units should be well worn out. Maybe some people would pay 50% for unit that have been burning 24/7 for two years, but not me. B: That's good to know - I have not seen the new cases. C: That seems horribly inefficient and expensive - I would equip them with internal SSDs - Apple's price is crazy high. Render jobs to and from network storage with SSD caching the local render write and then in-between renders sending to network. That's always proved fastest and lowest cost here on my informal render farm of 6 machines. Local Thunderbolt on bank of say 20 mac minis - that's crazy money, even just in cables. stephen van vuuren 336.202.4777 http://www.insaturnsrings.com/ http://www.sv2dcp.com/ http://www.sv2studios.com/ A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. -Stanley Kubrick ------=_NextPart_000_010D_01CDC0F6.B2F8A5A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

> A. You can easily recover 50% of the purchase price of a = Mini on a 2-year resale, B. it takes two seconds to rotate the bottom = cap off to get at the RAM slots - the putty knife thing was the OLD = version, C. any significant storage should be Thunderbolt-attached, not = internal.

A – for a render farm used properly, by 2 years, most of the = units should be well worn out. Maybe some people would pay 50% for unit = that have been burning 24/7 for two years, but not = me.

B: That’s good to know – I have not seen the new cases. =

C: That seems horribly inefficient and expensive – I would = equip them with internal SSDs – Apple’s price is crazy high. = Render jobs to and from network storage with SSD caching the local = render write and then in-between renders sending to network. = That’s always proved fastest and lowest cost here on my informal = render farm of 6 machines.

Local Thunderbolt on bank of say 20 mac minis – that’s = crazy money, even just in cables.

stephen van vuuren

336.202.4777

http://www.insaturnsrings.com/=

http://www.sv2dcp.com/<= /b>

http://www.sv2studios.com/<= /span>

A film is – or should be – more like music than like = fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, = what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes = later.

–Stanley Kubrick

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