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Will C1 benefit from SSD?

LadyRainbows
I am thinking about getting a SSD, and wanted to know of anyone is using C1 with a SSD. Will there be any speed improvement, if so, how much?

Thanks
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    Hi, I am using an SSD on a Windows 7 x64 system. In general the system benefits from the SSD and that includes Capture One, in particular when writing the output file (JPEG or TIFF) to the disk. However, I do not have any figures of comparison to justify my case. Maybe I might create some one day. Interesting question, though.
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  • Drew Altdo
    Really, what wouldn't benefit from SSD? Aside from your pocketbook.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    If I added a SDD it would not be the OS/Program files drive (at least to start). But all the data files would be on it.
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  • Drew Altdo
    [quote="Alex1" wrote:
    If I added a SDD it would not be the OS/Program files drive (at least to start). But all the data files would be on it.


    May I ask why? It seems to me if you want to take advantage of the "instant" speed of SSD, your OS is exactly where you would want that advantage. No?
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Correct about the benefits of SDD being for OS/program files. The reason I would use as file drive is I can get very good deal on SDD and it is easy to install one and start using it. It is far more tedious to install one and then reinstall OS and all my software. That is why I say at first. I'd likely get a few of them, but immediately now I am short on data storage space.
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  • Drew Altdo
    [quote="Alex1" wrote:
    It is far more tedious to install one and then reinstall OS and all my software.


    Cloning wouldn't work with your system?
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    [quote="Drew " wrote:
    [quote="Alex1" wrote:
    It is far more tedious to install one and then reinstall OS and all my software.


    Cloning wouldn't work with your system?

    It would probably work, but I would not recommend it. Enter the gray area of operating systems being aware of the kind of drive (HDD or SSD) they run on and commands they give to the hardware. You can read it differently: opt for Windows 7 when you go SSD and turn off auto defrag or any defragmentation (cutting a long story short).

    That said, either with XP or Vista you will enjoy increased performance. SSD is great but still in its infancies or puberty as are their users (i.e. the operating systems and applications). Manufacturers try hard to let SSDs behave like HDDs for compatibility but they aren't for obvious reasons.

    Sorry I got carried away a bit. 😁
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    An additional comment and some 'benchmarks' regarding SSD and Capture One.

    Hard disk performance affects CO when reading and writing to disk (obviously). This happens for example when previews are generated and images are processed. In a general system I noticed that approx. 50% of overall time to process an image is due to writing the output to disk. Hence, because of fast writing, processing approx. 2 times as fast with an SSD in the system.

    On a quad core Intel Core i7 system with a fast SSD (Intel X25-E), running Win7 Pro x64 and CO 5.1, I processed Canon 1Ds, 1Ds mkII and 1Ds mkIII raw files to TIFF 8-bit. Overall processing time was 1.9, 3.0 and 3.7 seconds respectively (i.e. 10 1Ds mkIII raw files took 37 sec. to process and save). I think the is pretty amazingly fast.

    As a foot note, CO 5.1 scales excellent on the quad core processor with hyperthreading, resulting in logical 8 cores.
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  • LadyRainbows
    This is sorta off-topic but...

    Does C1 also take advantage of higher end graphics cards?
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  • Drew Altdo
    [quote="NN143042UL" wrote:
    Does C1 also take advantage of higher end graphics cards?


    Indirectly, sure. Your computer likely pawns off certain graphics processes to the cards, so the higher end cards take more stress off your main CPU and as a result other programs perform with more wiggle room. So, yes... sorta.
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  • Drew Altdo
    As a follow up to this case I had the opportunity to use a MacBook Pro this past weekend with an SSD drive. And I must say, the responsive performance of Capture One was quite impressive. Generating Proxies still took some time but as the program was reading P65+ files that is no surprise. So in my unscientific test, yes the SSD was quite beneficial.
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  • LadyRainbows
    Thanks Drew.
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  • Alexey32
    Just installed Intel SSD 160Gb. (The best one on random reads/writes)
    This is the only way to run C1PRO reasonably fast.
    Windows7 start up time is 20 seconds only.
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