Best Setup for Mac Pro & SSD Drives with C1 Pro 6

Lube Saveski

• 4. April 2011 22:16

Hi, just wanted to get some peoples experience with SSD drives on Mac Pro's and Capture One. Currently i have a MacPro Laptop with a SSD and experience great speed using the HD and Capture One.

Im now looking into getting a SSD drive for my Mac Pro either the Vertex 2 180 or 240 gig or the Vertex 3.

Im wondering would it make more sense to set the SSD drive as the boot drive and use my WD Black HD as my 2nd Capture HD or would it better doing it vice verse. Im after getting the best possible speed from C1 capturing and rendering the images.

My current Setup is a Mac Pro 2010 6 Core 3.33ghz with 10gig Ram.
Im also using C1 Pro 6.1.1


Thanks.

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  rap_digital

  • 6. April 2011 23:18

  This is what I have found and most of it is based on feel rather than actual numbers.
  Use small SSD for OS.
  How small? I have a 60gb in my 6-core and that is plenty big enough for me. I keep itunes and general docs on a 5th drive under the optical bay.
  Captures SSD the biggest you can afford or what your likely to shoot in a day. For me 240gb has been fine. Most of the time when I'm teching a catalogue shoot I wont need to make space on the capture ssd until lunch time the next day, averaging 150gb a day. And the great thing about ssd is even though your are 3/4 full the read/write speed is the same as when its empty.
  Brands> I have a OWC 120gb 60gb and a few OCZ vertex2 240gb all are 34nm nand and all are going well for the past year.
  But the move to 25nm nand is causing some performance hits. Check out macperformanceguide.com and storagereview.com for details.
  
  Are SSD set and forget..... NO. Without getting to tech' you need to recondition the SSD every once in awhile again macperforomanceguide has a great little app that will help you do this for you. For the Capture_SSD I just format it with zero-out data selected then create a 230gb dmg on the drive and then format it once again. I have a script that I wrote to do this over night when ever I feel performance is slipping. Depends on how often I'm filling the drive so during a catalogue season I might do it once a week. You need to do it to the OS aswell but I find much less often and this falls under general system cleaning.
  
  So with such small drives you really need a good back-up system. I have 3x2TB in my tower that are all different brands (remember when seagate shipped that bad firmware batch). I have 3 CCC schedules that keep all the Live back-ups current.And so I can back-up the SSD to live back-up 1 and know that with-in 10 minutes LBP2 and 3 will also have the files. I dont sync deletes so if I rename a shot on the ssd then I'll have the old files and the new files on the backups. This means the backups will be larger than the actual job folder. Thats fine for me and my workflow and gives me the added security for user error.
  
  Hope this helps

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