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AE Cache and SSD drives
Hello guys,
I’ve updated my workstation from a 2010 mac Pro to a brand new Imac, and I was wondering what is the optimized setup for your footage, renders, media cache and disk cache?
Right now (with the mac pro) here is my setup: AE in installed on my OS SSD (my conformity media cache is there as well), my footage is on a separate internal HDD (the same where I render), and my disk cache is on an other separate internal SSD (Sonnet card).
Is this the fastest way to work?
Thank you for your help 🙂
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4 Replies
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What Dave said.
Your best set up would be:
Operating System on one Solid State Drive, After Effects being on that is perfectly fine and won’t affect performance
A Cache on a separate Solid State Drive
Your final renders on a 3rd and final.Generally though having it all on one SSD (if that’s all you have) is better than having all 3 on 3 different HDDs.
I’d also recommend if possible having the footage on an SSD, and as you render rendering to an SSD and then later moving it to a HDD (because of course most people won’t really have the space in a typically-sized SSD)
If you have a few TBs of SSD, then more power to you.
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Thank you Erick and Dave for taking the time to answer me. I don’t have an SSD for rendering only, would it be better for me to render on my IMAC SSD (only OS and Creative clouds applications on it) , or to my media drive where is all my footage (Thunderbolt 3 JBOD 2Big Lacie) or to my SSD used for disk cache? (I think this one is not a good idea)
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So Tom, what is your final configurations as for today?
As for me it’s just SSD for OS+AE and HDD for all the cache and renders. It sucks but have been bought my first SSD just last year 🙁 -
Read and write speed is more important for rendering . I use for example a pci-express ssd. But also a RAID configuration changes read and write speed.
Greets Mark
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