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System setup
I’m a long time shooter but fairly new to editing in PPro (I have 5.5) I’m now setting up my little Windows edit system. I’m looking to optimize the setup with the components I have on hand. Specifically, I’m wondering what my disk setup should be. I’ve tried using a two-disk G-Raid 4TB 7200rpm raid 0 external enclosure for a media drive via USB3 and experienced lots of stuttering and lagginess. So I want to start from scratch. Here are the internal drives I have available:
1 Intel SSD 160Gb (I use for the C drive)
1 additional Intel SSD 160 available
1 Intel SSD (40Gb)
2 Seagate Barricuda 7200rpm 2TB HD’s (6Gb/s)
1 Hitachi 2TB 7200rpm1 External 4 TB 2-disk G-Raid USB3
The computer is a water-cooled Intel i7 860 Quad core, Asus P7P55D-E MB and 32 GB of memory. Nvidia GTX 570 video card.
It has 6 3/Gb’s SATA3 inputs and two 6 GB/s inputs. It’s in a large well-ventilated case with 8 available drive slots. It’s worked well for 35/mbs XDCamEX out of my F3, but now I’m cutting MXF files from a Nanoflash and I’m seeing lots of jerkiness and overall it just feels sluggish.Any nice experts out there care to give me some tips on the best way to utilize this pile of disks?
Thanks!
J.Cummings
Cameralogic Inc.
Chicago/Cleveland
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Here’s where I would go (assuming Windows 7,64bit):
Add the second 160T SSD and assign it as your Cache / Render drive
(remember to clean it after jobs 🙂 )
Add all three 2TB drives and Stripe them (it will work even though they are different vendors)
– (this will give you around 300MB/sec sustained on that striped volume)
Use the G-Tech for backups until you can justify tape (LTO4/5/6)Your next step would be to sell the 40TB drive and use that revenue as seed to replace the GTX 570 with a GTX 650 or 660.
A similar configuration has proven to be a very robust and good performing CS6 system for me.
I also did some fancy stuff with moving my Program Files and Program Files (x86) to partitions on another 2TB drive to free up space on my 250GB SSD boot and mounted those (rather than assigning drive letters), but that was a headache that may not have been worth the effort.
Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
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Thanks a lot Tim.
I do want to make sure we’re talking about the same files so I’ll label them using the same terminology Adobe uses.
Assuming I go with the disk setup you describe, let me know if I have this right:
(C:) SSD1 Boot and Programs
(D:) Raid 0 (3 drives) for captured video files
(E:) SSD2 for video previews, audio previews and media cache databaseRegarding media cache database, there is the option to “save media cache files next to originals when possible.” Do I disregard that?
What about the project file itself? Does it take up a lot of room?J.Cummings
Cameralogic Inc.
Chicago/Cleveland
Sony F3/HDX-900/HDW-730S/Nanoflash -
[John Cummings] “Regarding media cache database, there is the option to “save media cache files next to originals when possible.” Do I disregard that?”
I do. I let them go to the Cache assignment drive.
“What about the project file itself? Does it take up a lot of room?”
They are pretty minimal. I save them on the same striped array as the clips.
Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters! -
Ok, I’ll give it a try!
Thanks again, Tim.J.Cummings
Cameralogic Inc.
Chicago/Cleveland
Sony F3/HDX-900
cameralogictv.com
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