[Norman Willis]

Just download it to both machines (or jumper it from one machine to the other) and install.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

Hi David.

>>I really like four partitions on a raid.

1:OS
2: Backup files & System restore
3: Work Drive
4: Library – music, images, royalty free stuff…

This allows my work files and other programs sit on the Hard drive and if I mess up my boot sector or need to reinstall the OS it doesn’t interfear with my other files… A complete system restore new codecs and the like in under 20 minutes. A brand new speedy clean system.

I am chewing on this. Where do you put all of your program files? Do you put them on the OS partition? And if so, if you re-install Windows, then how do you add the programs back to the registry?

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

Just as a question, if you get a photo of a car you like (which I hope you should be able to do) can you use a Bezier Mask to cut out the windshield, add your people, and then use some kind of inverted mask to add in an effect of glass glare?

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

OK, so a dedicated RAID card is key, then.

Good to know.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

OK, then, that’s a $900.00 card! (I’m out….)

I’ve got a fresh install of Vista x64 on Raid 10, so realistically speaking I’ll probably go with that for right now. But the next time I go to install an OS I might try Raid 5….

Thanks.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

So increasing the number of drives actually speeds writes up??

I have a Raid controller built onto the motherboard, but I only have five available drive bays. Would one big five-disk Raid 5 array be fast enough to do everything (OS, NLE, data, writes, etceteras)? Or does a guy really need eight?

[Norman Willis]

https://www.izotope.com/products/audio/rx/

currently on sale.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

>>Raid 5 is not the bottle neck, when you have EIGHT – 2 Terrabyte Hard drives attached. I’m using the areca 1261ml w/ 2gb cache…

I was told that Raid 5 slows things down because the processor has to spend one core thinking about what to send to which drive…and that an increase in the number of drives actually slowed the processor down more.

Now I am going to have to go back and research that whole thing, because drive for drive, Raid 5 has a lot more capacity than Raid 10.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

>>8 HDD Raid 5 = 675MB/s

David, you show Raid 5 on your new machine. When I was researching I was told Raid 5 would be a bottleneck due to slow write times (and to implement Raid 10 instead). However, your new machine does not seem to suffer (as it is 3 times as fast as your old one).

I imagine the speed increase is due to your new processor (Intel 980x), but it seems I got some bad information about Raid 5. Is there no real bottleneck as far as write times with Raid 5?

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

>>I would love to know the real bottle neck of rendering..I never see 100% CPU load… Usually 36- 75%…

I typically have 95-98% CPU utilization on Pro 9.0e, Core2Quad 3.0GHz, Vista x64, GTX260, 8GB RAM, C:\ standalone 1TB, D:\ RAID 10. I also had similar CPU utilization when I had both C:\ and D:\ in RAID 0.

I downloaded Pro 10a but have not had time to experiment with it yet (as I wear a lot of hats). However, I am curious to know why you only get 36-75% utilization on your CPU.

My projects are usually two layers of AVCHD converted to Cineform .avi, slides, .png’s, a .wav track, and some minor effects.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org