Hi everyone-
I need some tips on how to set up my computer/external drives for some photo/video hobby work.
My current setup is :
Mac Pro
2 x 2.8 Quad-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB 800 MHz DDR2
NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT
4 x 1TB (Hitachi 7200) drives. One drive is boot + more, and a second drive is for video. The other 2 drives are clones of the others. Drives are 700-800GB full.
Wondering the most "efficient" setup for a faster/better solution. I'm looking at MBPs since I need to be able to take the machine with me, and I don't mind being tied to editing the files at home where I have a much larger screen if that is the best advice.
My best guess is a MBP 15" Retina with
512GB flash (not sure 768GB is needed)
2.7GHz? (not sure of the benefit of the 2.8GHz)
I'm wondering if the 512GB flash is enough, and then if I should simply store all of my photo and video files exclusively on external drives? I don't know if by having all files on external drives however will slow things down, or if Thunderbolt + external drives (I am assuming 7200 drives..maybe even keeping my current drives?) will be even faster than my current setup. I want to keep the workflow as super-basic as possible (I'm not a technical guy), without transferring files manually back and forth. I haven't bought a machine in ages, so not sure even where to begin.
Also hear people mention but I've never used a RAID system. However, I know not a thing about RAID systems, and want to be sensible about having everything backed up (I would prefer to have local backups, and then consider cloud separately as well). While I am closing in on 2TB of unique files, I would think I should be thinking plan for ~3TB of photo and video files in the future? Or maybe more?
Thanks everybody!!
I need some tips on how to set up my computer/external drives for some photo/video hobby work.
My current setup is :
Mac Pro
2 x 2.8 Quad-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB 800 MHz DDR2
NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT
4 x 1TB (Hitachi 7200) drives. One drive is boot + more, and a second drive is for video. The other 2 drives are clones of the others. Drives are 700-800GB full.
Wondering the most "efficient" setup for a faster/better solution. I'm looking at MBPs since I need to be able to take the machine with me, and I don't mind being tied to editing the files at home where I have a much larger screen if that is the best advice.
My best guess is a MBP 15" Retina with
512GB flash (not sure 768GB is needed)
2.7GHz? (not sure of the benefit of the 2.8GHz)
I'm wondering if the 512GB flash is enough, and then if I should simply store all of my photo and video files exclusively on external drives? I don't know if by having all files on external drives however will slow things down, or if Thunderbolt + external drives (I am assuming 7200 drives..maybe even keeping my current drives?) will be even faster than my current setup. I want to keep the workflow as super-basic as possible (I'm not a technical guy), without transferring files manually back and forth. I haven't bought a machine in ages, so not sure even where to begin.
Also hear people mention but I've never used a RAID system. However, I know not a thing about RAID systems, and want to be sensible about having everything backed up (I would prefer to have local backups, and then consider cloud separately as well). While I am closing in on 2TB of unique files, I would think I should be thinking plan for ~3TB of photo and video files in the future? Or maybe more?
Thanks everybody!!
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