At 6:11 PM -0700 12/27/11, cctech at
vax-11.org wrote:
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Right now it's running Adobe Bridge,
Photoshop, Lightroom,
InDesign, and Acrobat as well as Phase One's Capture One, and a few
other things. My performance issues are strictly related to RAM
and Disk I/O. Actually the main performance problem is these ****
HD's that go to sleep on their own when not being used, and there
doesn't seem to be a way to turn off that behavior!
Zane
You could always switch to SSDs, but it may cost more to get a SCSI
SSD than a new computer would cost....
Clint
My system is SATA rather than SAS, though the RAID stripe my Photo
Library sits on is eSATA. I wish I could afford to move the Photo
Library RAID and Photoshop swap RAID to SSD RAIDs! At some point I
suspect I'll need to include a small SSD RAID as temporary work space
where photo's are worked on, and then copied to the main Library RAID.
Actually a quick price check shows that I could afford to move the
Photoshop Swap to SSD. The downside being I'd need a new FW800
external enclosure for the static data that is on the rest of that
RAID stripe. Moving the whole Photo Library to SSD on the other hand
isn't practical at this time, as it would cost well over $3k. The
worst part is that wouldn't leave much room for growth, to get an SSD
RAID the size of my current Library RAID would be closer to $8k
(ouch!).
Zane
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