Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #48279
From: Robert Houghton <gfxguy74@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] iMac Fusion Drive for AE
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:52:05 -0700
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Cc: Jack Tunnicliffe <jack@javapost.ca>
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I've been running with the SSD on the Retina 15" and an external USB3 drive for rendering. I keep media on the system drive when working if it can fit. It's been a decent workstation replacement when I need one. My main concern regarding a fusion drive is that when someone works in media creation there's a lot of media that gets tossed around and I'm not sure if the fusion is suited to that kind of work. Especially when you move large files around.

    -Rob

P.S. Here's an article I found regarding Fusion: http://www.macworld.com/article/2017365/lab-tests-pushing-a-fusion-drive-to-its-limits.html

On 3/27/2013 11:42 AM, Jack Tunnicliffe wrote:
I have a new MacBookPro with the 768 Gig SSD and I swear its 300 percent faster than my recent generation MacBookPro. I haven't run extensive tests but even loading the application and plug ins is super fast. I have the disk cache set to the internal drive as well and ram previews are enormously fast.

I don't have a Fusion drive in anything but I have a desktop machine with fibre connectivity to a server and a dedicated SSD for AE cache. I'm guessing my new laptop is actually faster but could be wrong. Will try and run a couple of tests this afternoon.

Jack Tunnicliffe
Javapost Production

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On 2013-03-27, at 12:22 PM, Rachel Max <rachelmax@mac.com> wrote:

Hi - is anyone using a new iMac with a fusion drive?

I'm wondering if the 128GB of flash storage will work well with the disk cache in AE.

I was going to get the 3TB Fusion drive but I could get the 768 Flash Drive ($$$) and use an external drive for storage.

Thanks,
Rachel
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