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1. Re: PP PRO & SSD Main Drive
Harm Millaard Feb 27, 2011 11:05 PM (in response to Rkenosha)The only problem is in your wallet. No noticeable performance gain, but a vastely higher price/GB than conventional disks.
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2. Re: PP PRO & SSD Main Drive
Scott Chichelli Feb 28, 2011 6:13 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)a big +1 Harm is right.
pointless other than bragging rights..
Scott
ADK
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3. Re: PP PRO & SSD Main Drive
FelixUnderwood Mar 4, 2011 10:10 PM (in response to Rkenosha)Rkenosha, Scott's wrong about Harm being right. But Harm's not wrong, either (and neither is Scott!). It's a matter of opinion. And it's also a matter of what your typical workflow is. And, of course, it's a matter of finances. I mainly do TV spots and lots of them. Some have 5-12 video layers, others have only two, but one of those layers is often an After Effects comp. Either way, I'm sucking everything from my editing rig that it can dish out. And I'm doing it for hours on end. And of course it's never fast enough. So for me, I find it affordable to go high-end, with SSDs falling into that category because of their price. I just bought a RevoDrive x2. It's been sitting in its unopened shipping box for the last 2 weeks. I planned on replacing my current C-Drive, which is a screaming Sata III Crucial, which boots Windows 7 in 15 secs. flat. It loads programs like AE & PPro in no time, but most importantly for me, I have much more faith in my editing rig every time I power it up. I don't trust moving parts, such as those in a hard drive in an otherwise solid state device, like a computer. I just edited 12 HD commercials in the last 4 days, with some crashes and many different projects being opened. Stayed up late the last 3 nights. I'll pay hundreds of dollars for time. Even a few seconds here and there. Add reliability into the mix and I'll pay even more. If I can get to bed a half hour earlier every night by doing so, I'll pay the "big bucks." Seconds add up in a hurry. Now if I wasn't doing demanding jobs and wasn't getting paid well, I can't say I'd be jumping on the SSD bandwagon right now, though I'm a strong proponent of advancing technology and have yet to see technology stand still. SSDs are here to stay. It's up to you to decide at what price point it's worth jumping in. Obviously they're not cost efficient for media storage, but I think they're a bargain for the peace of mind alone for me as a C drive and for project storage. And contrary to what Harm and Scott claim, I find them very fast. I store PPro and AE projects on them and AutoSaves and opening and saving projects happens in much less time than on HDs. SSDs are one less source of heat inside my rig, they don't need defragging, their physical profile is less restricting to air flow inside the case... I could go on, but there's plenty of posts on this forum about SSDs. If people pan SSDs, perhaps their workflows don't reflect the speed gains SSDs offer and that's why they don't think (and endorse) SSDs (and they've probably never owned one).Okay, now why is my RevoDrive 2 still unopened? Well, for one, I've been too busy to install it, but more importantly, I hit the buy button before doing more research. Remember what I said about peace of mind? Well, the RevoDrive x2 has twice the I/O specs (740Mb read/720 write!) of my already screaming Sata III SSD, but it's composed of four 64Gb SSDs in a RAID 0. Remember the lack of confidence I have in hard drives? Well, I have that same lack of confidence in 4 SSDs being RAIDed together to make one drive, especially my C-drive! So what's my point? I'd love to know myself. I'm very sleep deprived right now, so I better stop typing!Oh, to answer your original question, yes PPro will launch fine with a RevoDrive. Very fine. -
4. Re: PP PRO & SSD Main Drive
FelixUnderwood Mar 6, 2011 10:50 AM (in response to FelixUnderwood)One more thing about the RevoDrives and this can be a deal breaker: Often times, you cannot use the onboard RAID controlllers with these drives and also they're plenty of motherboards out there that the RevoDrives won't work with. I regret buying mine and will probably end up selling it on ebay. Boy did I jump the gun! Also, one more comment about SSDs: I own a SATA II SSD and a SATAIII SSD and it wasn't until using the SATA III SSD that I noticed appreciable speed gains over a 10K HD. But the SATA II SSD was in a dual quad core with a server moboard and ECC memory and as Harm has pointed out in the past, the POST alone on these enterprise machines takes 45 seconds, so the performance gains can be unnotieable, especially during boot up.



