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External Hard Drive Speed Up
I just bought an 500 GB external HD which can connect via firewire port or USB port. Would it speed up AE to use the external harddrive as the place to store the Cache files? Or is there any other way i can use this HD to configure my system for faster renders?
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your internal drive is probably faster at small random reads/writes, so it would most likely be a better choice for the disk cache. try the firewire drive as your media storage drive and for rendering to, it should work fairly well for sd footage and compressed hd footage. if you use uncompressed hd, you may want to look into a a sata2 card and beefy sata2 raid0 configuration for your media drive…
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If it’s Firewire 400 and USB 2.0, use USB 2.0. If it’s Firewire 800, go with that.
Although, it’s best to use internal SATA drives as the previous poster mentioned.
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Like Kevin said, internal scsi/sata/sas drives are much faster than firewire/usb. In practice there is much lower latency on the internal PCIe bus. Going through USB is like going through a shared medium, so it is definitely not good for AE. Firewire is better, since it’s a host to host based protocol, but you have the overhead of firewire commands on top of sata/ide/scsi protocols, depending on your drive. This makes all drives on FW or USB slower than native. If you are using a FW drive as part of your composting process, it will definitely slow you down and I suggest you target your external drives as your rendering target or offline storage. it will save you much time and program sluggishness.
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