After Effects Renders faster to external drive

	Re: After Effects Renders faster to external drive by Kevin Camp on Sep 18, 2008 at 3:31:33 pm since all 4 internal drives are on the same sata2 bus the data is probably bottlenecking at the bus. ae is continually writing and reading cache files, reading the media files and writing the rendered file all through the same bus. so what i think you are seeing is that even though the sata2 bus is faster than the fw800 bus, having the final render written to the fw800 bus is alleviating the bottleneck in the sata2 bus and producing faster renders.... did that make sense? the good news is that your machine is processing so fast that even a very fast drive bus can't keep up! also, you should see less of a problem with processing intense projects, where your drive bus will be better able to keep up with the processors taking more time to render each frame. Kevin Camp Senior Designer KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: After Effects Renders faster to external drive by Kevin Camp on Sep 18, 2008 at 8:03:57 pm [Chris Dortch] "I guess if apple would have given each drive its own bus I would not be having this problem. Right?" yes, but that would be a rather unusual and more expensive mother board design. you can get a pci-e sata2 controller and use that for with external sata2 drive or drive array (or with a little work, install 2 more internal drives in the 2nd optical bay with a 3rd party kit and run internal sata cables to connect those drives to the sata2 card). you could use a couple of your existing internal drives in a sata2 drive enclosure (or in the optical bay) to save some money on new drives. Kevin Camp Senior Designer KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index