Apple internal SAS & raid card
by Laurie Pepper
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Jul 14, 2008 at 8:28:04 pm
I'm about to buy a new 8 core.
I do a lot of work with media, after effects and final cut pro and so on.
Is there a benefit for spending the money for that incredibly faster drive?
Re: Apple internal SAS & raid card by Dave LaRonde on Jul 14, 2008 at 8:44:03 pm
[Laurie Pepper]"Is there a benefit for spending the money for that incredibly faster drive? "
You won't see much of an improvement in AE terms: renders may go marginally faster, and more storage is always good. You also might be able to play back high-quality renders from AE in real time in QT Pro, which is nice as well.
But FCP will just LOVE it.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
Re: Apple internal SAS & raid card by Jimmy Brunger on Jul 15, 2008 at 9:24:41 am
I see AE CS3 now has a disk cache for previews aswell as renders...what does this mean in real terms? I'm still in AE7 and hoping to upgrade soon. I use a SATA II RAID-0 as my scratch drive for disk cache..will this help my previews any? If so, presumably striped SAS drives will be 10 times faster! OUCH...pricey! ;-)
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Re: Apple internal SAS & raid card by Kevin Camp on Jul 15, 2008 at 7:16:38 pm
note that sas is better suited to boot drives or designated scratch or cache drives... sata2 will be a better choice for media drives.
there are 2 primary reasons for this, sas excels at small random writes which is important for scratch disk and boot drives. sata2 is very good at large reads and writes and thus, make good capture/playout drives for your media. also, sas is pricey, so to build a large drive array for media capture is better suited for the less expensive sata2 drives.
