Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #53382
From: Steve Oakley <steveo@practicali.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] Who uses global performance cache in AE and best way to set this up?
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 16:59:20 -0500
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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512 SSD's have dropped quite a bit the last few months. price is getting much better.

S

On Mar 24, 2014, at 4:55 PM, Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com> wrote:

Honestly that system probably still outclasses all but the high end macbook and mac pro. Get a 512 GB SSD. Don't look back. The SSD boot drive + SSD cache makes a huge difference in performance and render speed. SSD's last longer than HDDs anyway. I'd highly recommend the Samsung EVO pro line, I get over 600 / 500 MB ps read / write on a single SATA III drive. 

I recently did that same upgrade to my oldest workstation that now is my home theater pc / server, and it went from over a 3 minute cold startup to under 40 seconds


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Robert Houghton <gfxguy74@gmail.com> wrote:
True if I decide to get another PC. I've been eyeballing a potential iMac or Mac Pro purchase though which complicates that a bit.

    -Rob


On 3/24/2014 2:14 PM, brian@totaltraining.com wrote:
Any SSD you get today can be easily transferred to a new system tomorrow.

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From: "Robert Houghton" <gfxguy74@gmail.com>
To: "After Effects Mail List" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Sent: 3/24/2014 5:05:58 PM
Subject: [AE] Who uses global performance cache in AE and best way to set this up?

    Hi all,

        I've got a fairly simple set up in my office for After Effects CC work:

Intel 980x CPU
24GB Ram
Geforce GTX 580
3TB system drive (2 partitions, one for Win 7 64 and 1 for media)
120GB SSD

        Recently I've been thinking of using the 120GB SSD for a boot drive instead of my cache drive. I figure once everything is installed on it the speed I would gain from opening software and system operation would offset the loss of space for the cache or elimination of it entirely. Has anyone had any experience with this? Of course I could just buy another SSD but since this system is approaching 4 years old I would prefer not to throw more money at it. It would be nice to squeeze another year out of it.

            -Rob

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