SSD for Photography...

[SaoFeng]

So i'm a photo/video guy...

and i'm interested in an SSD for my main OS. i'll also install photoshop, lightroom, and premiere on the ssd.

my photos/videos are stored on a separate drive.

when i'm editing, will i see a big difference in editing?

thx!

 

[nanaki333]

i would think things like that are more CPU and memory stressed.

 

[Emulex]

you are probably pretty well off. get a bit ssd and store all but video on the ssd. it will be smokin'.

video is probably best for a fast hard drive (or three).


Typically pro's may have 12 or 24gb of ram but since they have multiple apps with multiple objects open they still use adobe's swap and system swap. this is very much enhanced living on the ssd.

the video card is very important too. Since adobe can make use of the nvidia to load the images for instant preview/etc and use the GPU to accelerate video filters in premiere.

ram - get your 12gb for $199 or 24gb
cpu - duh
ssd - big one or two raid-0 depending on budget.
regular drives - throw some into raid formation for video high bandwidth writing. the ssd's today are not designed for the type of writes you will do and last the # of years you expect.

 

[Voo]

Well assuming that the picture you're working on fits into the RAM the SSD will only help when loading pictures. And really, 12gb ram are pretty cheap and you really need something special to outgrow that (3D stuff or postersized stuff with lots of layers). Actually more than 8gb is really pretty hard to imagine.

Videos are a different kind of beast though, there a SSD should help quite a bit more

 

[SaoFeng]

thanks guys
i built a 2600k, asus p8p67 deluxe m/b, 16gb ram, evga 470gtx video card machine....

i'lll probably hold off on ssd for now since all the new stuff was announced at ces and will be released soon...so hopefully the prices will drop down 🙂

 

[Emulex]

you are doing yourself a GREAT disservice to not have an ssd. think about this. if you get a 64gb boot or 80gb or 120gb you can throw that in your laptop later since they are all 2.5" or use it in a backup machine.

every day a child is left without ssd , brain cells die.

if my time was worth $50/hr (and its worth more) i'd swap every drive machine to ssd because it would pay itself back in a few days.

The only time i do spindle is alot (24 10K savvio 2.5" sas) or alot of storage (12 15K 3.5" sas). you can get more iops out of 24 2.5" but its cheaper to get mad storage out of 3.5" sas - for now. now that the 10K 600gb sas are out that might change things.