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SSD or HDD RAID for FinalCut
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I’ve thought about SSD myself.
Yes they are faster than HDD. By how much depends on what you’re doing.
RAID configurations of SSD can be insanely fast.
More recent versions of SSD have internal garbage collection, and do not suffer the slow down issues of earlier generations.
This makes OSX’s lack of TRIM a non-issue.
SSD is stonkingly, nose bleeding, expensive. Especially at larger capacities.
And to make a difference for most editing work you’ll want the extra speed on your media drives.
With SSD as expensive as it is, I don’t think it’s worth it given I don’t have a problem working from a healthy HDD RAID setup.
What we really need is for someone to give us the new, 64bit, rewritten, multi-threaded, stable, Final Cut. And when that comes along and uses more than 10% of my machines current potential. Then I’ll take another look at SSD. Maybe.
So basically, when hell freezes over.
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[Chris Gavrilovic] “I appreciate the other guys “attempting” to add input – my question was not “should I get creative?””
You obviously weren’t going to spend $3000 on a single 1Tb drive, or you hadn’t bothered to investigate the price before asking, so the golden rule applies, “ask a silly question…”
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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You “obviously” don’t know my budget. I know how much an SSD drive costs and if you read my initial post I never asked about the price of an SSD drive. I asked “Whats faster?” I just so happen to have a rich daddy who will buy me ANYTHING! 😛
Since youre so quick to dish out advice, let me toss one out for you: Don’t “assume” anything. Oh also, hollywood isn’t about the creativity anymore (Ke$ha, Lady Gaga, Year One, etc)
If you don’t know the answer to a question, you can say so. No shame in that! Oh by the way, Michael Moore wants his site back 😉
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[Chris Gavrilovic] “I just so happen to have a rich daddy who will buy me ANYTHING!”
He should teach you manners.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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You’re right.
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I’ve seen single drive SATA hitachi drives in a MacPro going 100 MB/s ( MEGABYTE/s) a second in Decklink and AJA speed tests
SSD is expensive and great for speeding up your operating system.
But why bother to use it as a scratch when 99% of all HD formats can be done on 1 dedicated SATA drive.
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