Apple internal SAS & raid card

[Laurie Pepper]

Thanks. The fcp comment makes me want to do it. L.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

I see AE CS3 now has a disk cache for previews aswell as renders…what does this mean in real terms? I’m still in AE7 and hoping to upgrade soon. I use a SATA II RAID-0 as my scratch drive for disk cache..will this help my previews any? If so, presumably striped SAS drives will be 10 times faster! OUCH…pricey! 😉

AE7 Pro – Nucleo – Mocha v1.2.0 – PS CS3 – FCP 5.1.4
MacPro Quad 3GHz / ATI 1900XT / 8GB RAM / OSX 10.4.11
30″ ACD / Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / XServe RAID
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Production Studio CS2 – Combustion 3 – Mocha v1.0.1
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[Kevin Camp]

note that sas is better suited to boot drives or designated scratch or cache drives… sata2 will be a better choice for media drives.

there are 2 primary reasons for this, sas excels at small random writes which is important for scratch disk and boot drives. sata2 is very good at large reads and writes and thus, make good capture/playout drives for your media. also, sas is pricey, so to build a large drive array for media capture is better suited for the less expensive sata2 drives.

Kevin Camp
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[Laurie Pepper]

Thanks, Kevin. Glad I don’t have to spend the extra. Now I’ll find me some internal drives.

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