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It’s been tried, but the results haven’t been good enough to justify the cost, at least that’s my interpretation. Sorry I can’t point you to a review. My feeling is that we’ll need to wait for the next generation, but I hope I’m wrong. I want one too. 🙂
The fastest that I use is a dedicated 4GB/sec dual channel FC RAID 0 (1TB) array. Now this is totally overkill for PS — I use it for PP, AE etc where the demands are much higher.
For paging and programs, I use seperate dedicated 75GB 15Krpm FW SCSI 320. SCSI and drives are cheep these days. The MTBF on 15k drives has improved greatly from "the bad old days". In many ways, a fast paging disk would be better bang for the buck.
General rule: programs, paging, scratch and data should all reside on seperate disks.
for datra, I use a seperate 4GB/sec dual chanel FC RAID 3 array (4TB).
Backups are puched to a 4TB NAS drive in a fire resistant closet in the basement.
@hugh. Yeah, I do that with separate drives. I have Raptors for the important drives….but not with raid set-up.
I’ve got to do produce huge image ( you will fall over at the spec ) and it’s maxing out and beyond my 16gb Ram and the scratch is causing a slight delay when I have more than 2 layers in the image….blah.
I could upgrade to 32gb – but that’ll mean a new m/board and going into the Xeons ……:(
I tested an SSD when I ran the basic test of CS4 on the Intel x58 chipset board and an i7 2.66G with 6G ddr3.
For initial tests, I did not have a separate scratch disk, just used C drive. Then I did add an SSD as dedicated and found the time change to be about 0.2 sec faster with C drive. The running time was 14 sec.
I’ve been reading some interesting articles on SSD, now and in the near future. looks extreemely promising, with the technology not unlike re writable CD’s.
The speed problem coms down to cost tradeoff at this point
Most affordable SSD’s aren’t as fast as a fast hard drive for both read and write speeds. I’m running a dedicated 150GB Velociraptor drive for Creative Suite applications’ scratch space.
The current size is 270 x 10400cm @ 250ppi – it’s a full wall sized digital artwork…….not allowed to show it just yet…..In the summer..maybe???..as it depends on the client.
It’s going to be split into 10ish vertical panels ( Wall material limitations )and printed in sections….but I need to draw it as a whole image, to ensure continuity, which is causing some performance issues – to be expected at that size…..roll on 2015 ( 256gb ram, 60TB ssd 6th generation hard drives, 64 core processors, etc..). 😀
He’s using a Macintosh, but you may gain some clues about how he has his hardware set up.
His current big project is even bigger, and he seems to manage OK with conventional hardware. He also reveals some clues about how he breaks up his huge projects into more manageable smaller chunks. <http://revision3.com/pixelperfect/2008-09-22SneakPreview/>
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