Return-Path: Received: from [64.238.169.32] (HELO mail.austinmichael.com) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 5211687 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Sun, 15 Sep 2013 22:24:37 +0200 Received: from [10.0.1.19] ([70.164.195.224]) by mail.austinmichael.com (IceWarp 9.4.2 RHEL5.3) with ASMTP (SSL) id AVA11632 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2013 16:37:32 -0400 Subject: Re: [AE] OT: Apple RAID boot References: From: Dan Spiess Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (10B350) In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 16:37:29 -0400 To: After Effects Mail List Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) I understand free. I would think your ae workstation would go faster IF you a= re using the SSD for your cache. But hey, I could be wrong. I'm pretty sure y= ou can use a raid 0 to boot from. Just be sure to back up often. Dan On Sep 15, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Jim Curtis wrote: > Easy for you to say to "buy a SSD." :) >=20 > Actually, I just did that for my main Ae workstation yesterday, and it has= n't seemed to speed up Ae. Excel sure opens fast, though. >=20 >=20 > My second MacPro, which is a backup and overflow workstation and not used t= hat much, has two internal 500G drives for OS. One is running 10.8.5 and th= e other 10.6.5. I'm thinking it's safe to abandon 10.6 now, and commit to 1= 0.8 on a RAID. I expect it would speed things up for no cost, as opposed to= $440 for a 480G SSD. >=20 > But, that's only if it's safe to run a boot disk off a software controlled= RAID 0, which was the point of my OP. >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > On Sep 15, 2013, at 2:23 PM, Dan Spiess wrote: >=20 >> I would buy a SSD drive instead. That should be faster than your raid. >>=20 >> Dan Spiess >>=20 >> On Sep 15, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Jim Curtis wrote: >>=20 >>> I'm considering a reconfigure of my second MacPro. Is it possible, advi= sable or foolhardy to create a boot disk from an Apple software managed inte= rnal RAID 0? (I do regular backups, and am aware of the perils of RAID 0.) >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> Ae + Pr tip: Move the plug-ins you don't want to share with Pr from the= Media-Core folder to the Plug-ins folder in the Ae Application folder. Pr w= ill launch faster without having to load plugs you never use in that applica= tion. >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> . >>> +---End of message---+ >>> To unsubscribe send any message to >>=20 >> +---End of message---+ >> To unsubscribe send any message to >=20 >=20 > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to