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11-26-2009, 12:52 AM
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| Faster Faster... Hi hi. I'm running an 64 bit Mac pro with 8 cores, and 10gb ram. Cs4 & snow leopard. I've added some speedier drives, but i'm wondering what i can do next, these changes have made a HUGE difference to performance, i want more! I've got a 15,00rpm boot drive & I've stripe raided two 15,000 RPM drives, a 64 gb partition for Scratch, and the remainder for working drive. As the stripe raid is less secure, i backup hourly to Drobo... ace. I've optimised my settings in PS and boot in 64 bit mode when i'm working on big jobs... I've got Apple 30" monitor & a 20" tools monitor (rotated 90 degrees is the same height as 30"- both wall mounted, along with a well organised file system ... so i feel my workflow is good. what is the next logical upgrade for me? what equipment, or upgrade do you most value??  |
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11-26-2009, 08:55 AM
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| Re: Faster Faster... hi, 1. hardware ... don't most of us always want more speed speed... but you do reach a point of diminishing returns vs the money you put in .. spending 500 bucks to get 5-15% improvement maybe well worth it but spending 500 bucks for just a 1% improvement very difficult to notice.... ... see my point... now i am not a mac user.. but i try to keep my hand in it... and there a lot of similarities between mac and wintell machine on improving speed... and these my thoughts... on the hard drives i assume those are sata 3.... and i assume you already have a nice fast graphic card... graphics card and lot of graphic ram can make a big difference.. as far as hardware.. the only thing i can think of at the moment is in the realm of external devices... your probably use firewire for those.... which is better than usb 2.0 However... intell is comming out with a new usb standard!! which beat the heck out of not just the usb 2.0 but also your firewire!! ... it looks like it will replace both!!!!! the only area where it may not is your external esata 3 hard drives ..... you should be hearing much more about in the comming weeks and start seeing external devices for usb 3.0 ... so you may want to do your own research and see if it usefull for you.. 2. sofware... you might look at tweaking your operating system... in many cases you can get a nice performance boost... we definitely do in the wintell world.... this link which i had bookmarked for apple... covers 50 tips on tweaking the the OS to improve performance... http://www.macuser.com/troubleshooti...php?lsrc=murss i hope the above info usefull.. good luck on squeezing alittle more performance out of your system.... Quote:
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11-26-2009, 08:16 PM
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| Re: Faster Faster... have you looked at this thread?: http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/har...kstations.html you might also take a look at this article: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...lock,1186.html and do a search on google for 'ram harddrives'. and i dont know if it's come to apple yet, but check out 'SLI' for video. and within that other thread on RP, you'll find links to systems like this: http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews...54&tag=nl.e505 and this: http://www.nvidia.com/object/persona...computing.html but again, those arent for apples  |
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11-27-2009, 06:40 AM
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| Re: Faster Faster... faster for what purpose? You already have the faster machine ever made and I think it's not used neither at 50% After Effects and 3D apps demans faster CPU's and a lot of RAM. Open the Activity Monitor and check how are working those cores and hw much RAM is involved and you will see how much are you using your MacPro. Would be nice if you post here an screenshot. |
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02-07-2011, 06:40 PM
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| Re: Faster Faster... Quote:
Also another resource for Mac performance is here: http://macperformanceguide.com/index.html --shift studio. |
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02-08-2011, 03:26 PM
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| Re: Faster Faster... I read quite a bit on http://macperformanceguide.com/ ... and went for: Stripe Raided 60 SSD boot disk which keeps the OS and moving stuff around super fast. I've then got a stripe RAID made of two 15000 RPM 150GB drives - the inner 30GB (faster bit of each drive) is used for scratch (Total 60GB) and the outer (230GB) for a fast working disk. I've stretched to 20GB ram, which seems to be enough for most work I do. It's all backed up via SATA to a larger slower disk. and nightly backed up to G-tech Mobile drive which I take home... I've also kept my system to a bare bare minimum - Literally Just PS, Mail, Safari & Transmit, which does wonders to keeping it happy. I'm going to step down to one SSD for the boot, see if i notice a difference in real world usage. As nothing is stored on boot, 60GB would be enough. I'm dead happy with the set up though, would recommend to any PS professional. Next Project - when the new MacBook 13" is released - rip out the CD drive and have dual SSD inside... one for boot, one scratch... Trying to figure out if the MiniSD can be used for anything useful... would be pretty funny to keep a few boot volumes on SD cards - one for work, personal etc - anyone tried that? Also hoping the new 13" gets E-SATA... hehe |
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