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Fotopete77
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February 2, 2020
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raid system startup on ssd for photoshop cs5

  • February 2, 2020
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BKG: mac pro 3,1, 32gb ram, sonnet tSata6 pci-e with dual samsung 840 pro 256gb SSD (current system startup), 4x2TB drives.  Use OSX 10.9.5 on this sytem but have El Capitan on another system.

Question; looking for more performance for photoshop cs5. Thought is to raid, mirror or stripe the 2x SSD that have startup and create daily backup on one of the 2TB drives. Main use is for processing files and creating 36x60 x 300dpi psd files that I flatten and print. Currently have one ssd with startup and home folder is one 2TB drives.

 

If I do raid would think that moving home folder to SSD with startup and use only for work then move to other drive. If that is case with daily workload would life deminish on SSD and possibly fail faster?  Thanks for suggestions.

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Lumigraphics
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February 2, 2020

Sell that computer and get a current iMac. It will smoke the old Mac Pro.

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Fotopete77Author
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February 3, 2020

Thanks, I have an IMAC 27/3.4QC/8GB/1TB FD/RP570 but it sits in kids study room. Think they used it couple times, mostly for me when home. Mac tower is one of 2 in office. As mentioned I am looking at 6 core tower and plan to build that to do photoshop and video. Appreciate your time.

D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity Expert
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February 2, 2020

I'm not sure I understand...something like this? Does this do RAID as well?

 

RAID0 would of course speed it up, although it still wouldn't be close to modern NVMe drives. It would also treat it as one 512GB volume.

 

Used as system drive and Photoshop scratch disk, it should probably work well enough.

 

Images and assets should remain on the spinning drives. There's no advantage to moving it back and forth.

 

As for reliability, this is usually discussed from a statistical point of view, arguing about the likelihood of failure in so-and-so configurations. That's the wrong level. That's just large numbers statistics. On an individual level, there's no such thing as likelihood. It either fails or it doesn't.

 

Any drive, in any configuration, can fail at any time. That's all you can ever know. Be prepared for it, have the backup you need and/or any other resources you need to rebuild the drive.

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Fotopete77Author
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February 3, 2020

Thanks. yes that is sonnet pci-e I use. You answered what I thought was correct.

Looking at 2012 tower six core 3.46 system and will research NVMe drive pci-e drive for that.

 

Images and assets should remain on the spinning drives. There's no advantage to moving it back and forth.

Thought it would process faster on ssd. Previous workflow was importing to spin drive and simply convert/store.

Thanks again for assistance.

Mylenium
Mylenium
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February 2, 2020

Contemporary SSDs are much more robust, but of course still wear out. Just not as quickly, sometimes equalling the write cycles of traditional platter drives to the point where it probably won't make much of a difference. the rest won't matter. Just beefing up the theoretical drive speeds likely does nothing to improve how PS handles its internal memory operations, especially in an old version that doesn't even support asynchronous file I/O. The overhead caused by your other operations could far outweigh any theoretical speed gains.

 

Mylenium

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Fotopete77Author
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February 3, 2020

Thanks for help. 

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