John Buckman
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Interesting, you seem to be placing the speed priority on the footage drive over the scratch disk. Do you think it would make more sense then to keep the scratch disk writing to the eSATA via USB3.0 drives and store footage (media) on a say, 480GB SSD external via thunderbolt 2? Then the internal drive could be a 1TB Fusion, so programs still open fast and I could have the extra storage if I needed it.
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Both of these suggestions are very helpful. I agree with Alexander, perhaps it would make more sense to get 4 iMacs with higher specs and I could use the left over money to upgrade my Mac Pro, which is currently 2.8mhz Quad-Core Xeon, 12GB RAM, non-CUDA GPU. I could add more RAM, an SSD and CUDA-GPU to it and be just fine.
Obviously, SSDs are ideal for cache so should I upgrade to 512GB SSD internal (a $300 upgrade) and keep cache/scratch on the OS disk… OR keep the 1TB Fusion HD internal to use as media storage (and hopefully SSD application speed) and purchase an external SSD for cache, but what size would be appropriate?
Thank you so much for your help.