Configuring new Mac (Help!).
Hi
Just before I leap in and waste my money, I'm due to update my computer (PB17 which will still carry out location duties) with a Mac Pro and I'm wondering about my best configuration for processing files.
I know C1Pro is exasperating with all its hangs and freezes and inexplicable shut downs, but it's the devil I know so it stays ( I also love it, despite its imperfections and foibles).
Here's the rub...
Budget is kind of an issue (when isn't it?), so it looks like I'll take a quad core.
I'm not sure what will give me the best advantage on speed, so:
Do I beef up the RAM to get the RAW processing up from it's current 22 seconds per full size 5D MkII file to TIFF, onto a G-Tech external drive, or do I go for two extra SATA hard drives and the Raid card to speed things up? The two drives and RAID card is probably out of my budget if I'm going to have to add more than 2Gbs of RAM (giving me 8Gb)
So is it extra RAM for less money onto external drives, or extra SATA drives and the card and skimp on RAM. If it's the latter, what's the optimum amount of RAM upgrade bearing in mind expense will now be a very serious issue?
BTW- the basic Mac Pro comes with 2x 2.4Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Westmere†(8 cores) and 6Gb of DDR3 ECC SDRAM
Just before I leap in and waste my money, I'm due to update my computer (PB17 which will still carry out location duties) with a Mac Pro and I'm wondering about my best configuration for processing files.
I know C1Pro is exasperating with all its hangs and freezes and inexplicable shut downs, but it's the devil I know so it stays ( I also love it, despite its imperfections and foibles).
Here's the rub...
Budget is kind of an issue (when isn't it?), so it looks like I'll take a quad core.
I'm not sure what will give me the best advantage on speed, so:
Do I beef up the RAM to get the RAW processing up from it's current 22 seconds per full size 5D MkII file to TIFF, onto a G-Tech external drive, or do I go for two extra SATA hard drives and the Raid card to speed things up? The two drives and RAID card is probably out of my budget if I'm going to have to add more than 2Gbs of RAM (giving me 8Gb)
So is it extra RAM for less money onto external drives, or extra SATA drives and the card and skimp on RAM. If it's the latter, what's the optimum amount of RAM upgrade bearing in mind expense will now be a very serious issue?
BTW- the basic Mac Pro comes with 2x 2.4Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Westmere†(8 cores) and 6Gb of DDR3 ECC SDRAM
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Ouch. UTFS fail.
Sorry everyone...0 -
[quote="John16" wrote:
Hi
I know C1Pro is exasperating with all its hangs and freezes and inexplicable shut downs
It weird, I'm on a 2 yr old iMac 2.4 Ghz Intel Core Duo with 1 (yes 1) GB of RAM, and I have no hangs, no freezes, and no inexplicable shutdowns. I wonder what I'm doing wrong?0 -
now that's tempting providence!
I just have one of the temparemental versions, it's a little bit like having an Italian wife. The ride might be bumpy, but it's never boring!0 -
this might be off topic... regarding 2 hard drives on a mac, with system software on one boot drive and files on the other drive, should Capture 1 be on the same drive as the system? I was told having a separate boot drive increases performance. 0 -
[quote="dale11833" wrote:
... should Capture 1 be on the same drive as the system? I was told having a separate boot drive increases performance.
Capture One, as well as any program, should be installed on the Boot Drive as all of the components within the program need to access files held on the Boot drive, so keeping them separate adds complexity. On a Mac your system and boot drive are the same.0 -
Hi Drew,
Thanks for the info. Would performance increase if I keep a tethered session on a separate internal hard drive? My goal is to speed up tethered capture i.e. make the images pop up on the screen faster, and in full resolution.0 -
[quote="dale11833" wrote:
Would performance increase if I keep a tethered session on a separate internal hard drive?
That depends on the speed and health of the drive. Will it speed it up? Not Likely unless it's SSD or 1000KRPM, but the difference wouldn't be obvious to the naked eye.
For fastest performance shoot to the Boot Drive so the file doesn't need to jump through other volume directories to get written.0
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