| ||||||||||
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Stephen van Vuuren <stephen@sv2studios.com> wrote: 5. Get the an SSD dedicate to AE cache – you will want 256 to 500 GB for decent fast cache for 4K previews. Even a 1TB would not be overkill if your master is over 4K. And you might consider PCIe-attached solid state storage for the cache instead of a SATA SSD. It's startingly easy to saturate the SATA bus with any combination of large rasters, higher bit depths, and lots of layers. A single 19,200 x 8640 buffer at only 8bpc is 632 MB -- or two second's worth of bandwidth for SATA 3Gb/s, or one second's worth of bandwidth on SATA 6Gb/s. You could cut that in half again or better with PCIe flash storage like the Fusion ioFX. |
