[David Price]

Just to ask a little further about your advice on where to store footage/caches Todd, (“On the other hand, you don’t want to store footage and caches on the same drive, since they’re being read (or written) at the same time in many cases.”)

Am I correct in thinking that ideally 3 drives are needed, (for aftereffects/cinema 4d work predominantly), one to store footage, one for caches (is this good enough for a hybrid drive with 8gb cache?) plus one other drive to render to? Or would two suffice?

Second question is, with an nVidia 860M do I need to worry at all that it’s bitrate is only 128, as opposed to an 880M that starts at 256? I only ask as somewhere else I heard it was considered possibly more important than the videocard’s memory. (which both are 4gb). Just really wanting to eliminate any bottlenecks for Photoshop/AE/Cinema4D workflow.

For clarity I’m looking into an Asus N51GM with 1TB sata 7200, GeForce GTX 860M plus adding either one or two 240GB ssd’s. (I will also be running a cintiq and possibly separate monitor too).

Many thanks for any clarity on this!

David