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| I wouldn't bother with SSDs for the render nodes for the small setup I'm considering -- would save some money. As I'd be using the farm for 3D renders as well, drive speed isn't a significant factor. I rarely have AE renders that take so long that a farm is justified. Boot up times / system responsiveness doesn't matter much either because you turn them on and leave them on when you want to render. Program loads, scene and associated files are read from the network, the render starts, and then a frame is kicked back once it's done then on to the next one -- thus, there isn't a lot of drive usage provided you don't run out of RAM and start paging. For me, they wouldn't even need to be crazy decked out with RAM either as my 3D renders rarely use much memory. Mostly just about having more cores to render with. - Nathan
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Tony Romain <tonyr-aelist@trancedesigns.com> wrote:
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