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1. Re: Storage suggestions?
Harm Millaard Apr 12, 2010 5:59 AM (in response to Tayedrummer)How to get the best from a PC? Some guides...
and have a look here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/525263?tstart=0
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2. Re: Storage suggestions?
Bill Hunt Apr 12, 2010 7:15 AM (in response to Tayedrummer)Though I have 6x internals, I use a handful of FW-800 externals, both for storage and for migrating Projects between computers.
As I am doing only SD, those FW-800's have proved fine. Were I doing HD, or not so heavily invested in FW-800's, I'd definitely go eSATA. In new workstation, I will be adding eSATA, and all new externals will have eSATA connections. I will still use FW-800's, but that is because I have so many already, and most are for archiving "footage."
With the exception of those externals, that are ONLY for archiving, I only work with Copies of my Assets, whether on an external for migrating, or on internals. The originals are stored on my NAS, or on one of those "archive only" externals. The exception will be where the original was Captured from a tape-based camera, as I do not reuse tapes, and can always re-Capture from those - otherwise, I will just Copy over, as is needed.
Just one workflow.
Good luck,
Hunt
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3. Re: Storage suggestions?
Bill Gehrke Apr 12, 2010 4:45 PM (in response to Tayedrummer)Take a look at what is successful, on the PPBM4 (Premiere Pro BenchMark) site at the Benchmark Results page. If you want to see what is good and bad in disk performance look at the disk intensive AVI Encoding column.
By the way do not go with a RAID 0 for you OS/Applications disk. While it will speed loading your application, it WILL NOT speed up running your application. When you are running an application it is running out of memory not the disk. Also running RAID 0 on your OS/Application disk adds to the risk category and makes it much harder to recover if you do have an error because many recovery tools do not work on RAID arrays.
Message was edited by: Bill Gehrke
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4. Re: Storage suggestions?
Tayedrummer Apr 13, 2010 5:37 AM (in response to Bill Gehrke)Hey great link Bill!
So if I'm reading the suggestions correctly a CS5 system should look like:
i7 Quad-core, Win7 64bit, CUDA GPU
OS - 1TB SATA
Media - eSATA tower, hardware controlled, RAID-3
Scratch - 500Gb(ish) SATA
Output - 1Tb SATA
Now will the eSATA tower connect directly to the system or is a "port multiplier complient" eSATA card required?
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5. Re: Storage suggestions?
Bill Gehrke Apr 13, 2010 6:39 AM (in response to Tayedrummer)Tayedrummer wrote:
Hey great link Bill!
So if I'm reading the suggestions correctly a CS5 system should look like:
i7 Quad-core, Win7 64bit, CUDA GPU
OS - 1TB SATA
Media - eSATA tower, hardware controlled, RAID-3
Scratch - 500Gb(ish) SATA
Output - 1Tb SATA
Now will the eSATA tower connect directly to the system or is a "port multiplier complient" eSATA card required?
Well you partially read the information. For maximum performance
OS - VelociRaptor 150 GB is generally enough
Media/Project - Areca Controller with RAID Array
If you want other drives for Cache/Output/Preview that is optional but unless they are almost as fast as the RAID array testing with PPBM will show that they degrade performance slightly.




