SDD drive

[muoto]

Hello,

i'm thinking of getting a new Dell t-5500 workstation with a SDD drive as boot+windows+cache+apps and a SATA drive for data.

is this a wise or good strategy for speed?

thanks

[MoonDoggie]

Yeah, I love my Intel M-25 SSD. What would the downside be except price?

[Morbid Angel]

had my ssd for over 2 years now. Great everything no complaints, now working is actually pleasant. And in the new facility that Im in, every workstation has an ssd, the way it should be!

[muoto]

Well. ok then, will spend 7000 euro for a complete new workstation (2x fast cpu, quadro 4000, 48gb ram, sdd, and 2tb sata)

[Morbid Angel]

when i built my config i went with 2 2tb satas, and one is a mirror of another, just in case, i dont have raid or anything. Also a quadro might be an overkill. Depends on what you want to do though.

[jasonhuang1115]

Hi,

I am considering adding SSD drive to my current workstation (probably via a SATA cable internally). Will adding a SSD as the Nuke cache drive and a second SSD exclusively storing comp project assets (mostly EXRs) the way to go or just a single SSD that is pointed as the cache folder and for project assets?

[muoto]

problem i have is that i have quite big scenes with lot of objects, so need some good video card.
raid is an option as well, anyway, i have 3 workstations, and all are sync'ed

[rivoli]

problem i have is that i have quite big scenes with lot of objects, so need some good video card.

as dmtry pointed out, you may be better off saving the money and get a gtx680 or a hd7970.

[muoto]

is the gtx680 faster than a qaudro4000 ? or just less money for same speed ?

will check what dell offers as i want to have everything under day+1 support

[themaxxer]

I have a ocz vertex3 and after 2 years I have to replace it because of the smart test that says I only have 3% of living cells...!

I have checked with CristalDiskInfo and SSDLife Free...

best regards
themaxxer

[muoto]

You mean that SDD drives are more fragile than SATA drives ? (should i go for raid SDD ??? if it even exists)

[rivoli]

is the gtx680 faster than a qaudro4000 ? or just less money for same speed ?

geforces tend to perform better than quadros as long as max is concerned, and they are a fraction of the money.. from personal experience I can confirm that, never seen any substantial gain in viewport speed with quadros. from what I gather online, the hd7970 seems to work even better the nvidia cards, but I have no direct experience with ati cards. don't know how well it does with vray rt either..

[Morne]

You mean that SDD drives are more fragile than SATA drives ? (should i go for raid SDD ??? if it even exists)

I have 2 Kingston SSD's in Raid 0, and they're blazing fast. Had it for about a year now, and no problems. Happy with it

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Well. ok then, will spend 7000 euro for a complete new workstation (2x fast cpu, quadro 4000, 48gb ram, sdd, and 2tb sata)

Biggest waste money u could do.

Do not go with Dell, Do not get Quatro.

[Franx]

Biggest waste money u could do.

Do not go with Dell, Do not get Quatro.

Was about to write the same. For that money, you could have 2 self built workstations.