Way to really speed up CS6!

[Les C.]

I read about these in EE Times a while back. PCIe is massively faster than SATA, so this is a radically better way to use Flash. Apparently, Adobe thinks so too! Of course, I'm out of PCIe slots, so I'm out of luck until my next box.

http://www.storagereview.com/fusioni..._with_new_iofx

[Todd Kopriva]

It was great to see Steve Forde (After Effects product manager) demonstrate and discuss this with Steve Wozniak at the keynote presentation at NAB.

[Elsie N]

It was great to see Steve Forde (After Effects product manager) demonstrate and discuss this with Steve Wozniak at the keynote presentation at NAB.

Todd, is the Revo drive also supported?

[Elsie N]

OCZ Revo drives look like the same thing and have been out for a couple of years now. Pretty expensive, but for the bandwidth, not too bad. Takes a little tinkering as I understand it, to make it bootable.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227740


And it only uses a single lane PCIe slot.

EDIT: I stand corrected. The picture looks like a single lane slot connection but the specs refer to an x4 lane interface.

[Steve Sherrick]

As great as the tools are right now, I still feel we're a few years behind in some areas. I recognize the challenges with high resolution imagery and I don't doubt the enormous effort put into striving for faster processes, but months to render one shot to me means the industry could really use a game changer. One of the frustrations I've always had with After Effects is how long certain tasks take, even in HD res. I'm very much a "think it-do it" kind of person and I am looking forward to the day when we'll be pushing this stuff around without all the bottlenecks in place. Hopefully that's what we're starting to see happen.

[Elsie N]

As great as the tools are right now, I still feel we're a few years behind in some areas. I recognize the challenges with high resolution imagery and I don't doubt the enormous effort put into striving for faster processes, but months to render one shot to me means the industry could really use a game changer. One of the frustrations I've always had with After Effects is how long certain tasks take, even in HD res. I'm very much a "think it-do it" kind of person and I am looking forward to the day when we'll be pushing this stuff around without all the bottlenecks in place. Hopefully that's what we're starting to see happen.

I agree Steve. From reading some of the claims about this type of solution, it sounds like we may be getting away from the need for excessive cores and threads and being able to make the computers we have faster (while using Adobe, anyway) just by moving from SATA connectors to PCIe connections. I already am thinking I can get one of the REVO cards (less expensive than the Fusion-io but not quite as fast, perhaps) and bump up my CS6 work and when done, save it to a SATA HDD. I was thinking I needed to build a new computer with Dragon coming, but now I'm thinking, maybe not. Two of these in a RAID 0 could make your headspin!

[Shane Betts]

As great as the tools are right now, I still feel we're a few years behind in some areas. I recognize the challenges with high resolution imagery and I don't doubt the enormous effort put into striving for faster processes, but months to render one shot to me means the industry could really use a game changer. One of the frustrations I've always had with After Effects is how long certain tasks take, even in HD res. I'm very much a "think it-do it" kind of person and I am looking forward to the day when we'll be pushing this stuff around without all the bottlenecks in place. Hopefully that's what we're starting to see happen.

If Hugo was posted using either ArriRAW and/or DPX, I can understand the render times and the need for incredibly fast storage. However, shooting on Red with RAW at around 50MB/s, double that for 3D, staying with the R3Ds as long as possible, working with EXRs, storage throughput won't necessarily be the issue. Perhaps Red have unwittingly keyed neatly into the future buy placing all the pressure on CPU/GPU/Rocket and taking some pressure off I/O.

[PatrickFaith]

Any SSD Drive suggestions for the new cache enhancements of cs6 (I am on a sandybridge intel/windows system)? I'm thinking of upgrading my systems with SSD in the next few weeks.

[Elsie N]

Any SSD Drive suggestions for the new cache enhancements of cs6 (I am on a sandybridge intel/windows system)? I'm thinking of upgrading my systems with SSD in the next few weeks.

Patrick, I am in no way recommending the hybrid one in this link, but it is rather intriguing. Still, it requires PCIe x4 slot instead of SATA. And 1 TB is a real plus.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227753

[PatrickFaith]

Patrick, I am in no way recommending the hybrid one in this link, but it is rather intriguing. Still, it requires PCIe x4 slot instead of SATA. And 1 TB is a real plus.

Well I was going to go with a eSata ssd ... but from the recommendations I'm seeing ... looks like i should go pci, so I will be checking out all these ssd/disk/ram things. When I am doing a scene (1/36 of a movie) ... i'm normally running a bit under a terrabyte of DI files ... so these new adobe caches are a bit like DI files (as i'm starting to "skip" the DI step more) ... so i need atleast 512 gig of SSD. Perfect world on a hybrid setup ... I'd like some sata3 (or pci) 512 gig ssd and a 12 terabyte raid ... munched together for com positing. btw in the nab 2012 thread they are talking about render time for special effects, I'm not sure what they were doing but with cloud rendering that is the least of my problems - my main "slow down" is in compositing vfx/sfx/raw.