My Mac Pro is a 4,1
I've recently out grown my current storage and would like to pick your brains as what to do next.
My workflow has changed a bit as well as I find myself making corporate videos in FCP X, that combined with my frequent Photoshop use has me thinking maybe I should re-gear my storage and get a scratch drive too.
My current drive setup:
Samsung 830 SSD - 256GB (OS X & Apps, move FCP libs here, then back to data when done if it's small enough, ProRes files seem to get HUGE)
Hitachi 2TB (Data storage, music, logic files, photos, etc.) - down to less than 100GB
WD Green 2TB (TM Backup, can't backup anymore because it's out of space)
My priority is to get a 4TB TimeMachine in place, I've ran without a backup before and it didn't end well.
I really liked Hitachi drives but as I started researching I've found out they were bought by WD, then sold to Toshiba, so are Toshiba drives really Hitachi drives? Are WD drives Hitachi drives? Are Hitachi drives Hitachi drives (sorry, not trying to be annoying but researching this has driven me in circles..)
My next idea was to take two new 2TB Hitachi drives (7200 rpm, 64MB cache) and put them in an OS X RAID0 - think this would be 'cool' for FCPX performance? (just ProRes HD files) Additionally this array would be my data drive. It'd be nice not to have to copy libraries back and forth.
Then when I can afford it, I'd get a 500GB SSD and put it in an PCIe card to use as my OS X and app drive, then use the existing 256GB SSD as a scratch for Photoshop (don't deal with crazy files here too often) and FCPX - would it make sense to get a PCI card that holds two SSDs or would I bottle neck having FCPx & it's scratch disk on the same PCI card? Or two separate PCI cards? - One for OS X & apps and one for scratch? Or would the existing SATA connection on the SSD be OK for a scratch disk?
Does this make sense? Am I overlooking something? Is there anyway to get a 'Hitachi' drive anymore? (only brand that hasn't failed on me, though the last one I bought came before all the manufacturers went crazy and started buying each other and before the floods)
External storage to me seems kind of like a pain in the butt and not as fast as internal, I'm not thrilled about adding a USB3 or eSata card to get the job done.
Thanks for reading and I appreciate any advice anyone can offer.
I've recently out grown my current storage and would like to pick your brains as what to do next.
My workflow has changed a bit as well as I find myself making corporate videos in FCP X, that combined with my frequent Photoshop use has me thinking maybe I should re-gear my storage and get a scratch drive too.
My current drive setup:
Samsung 830 SSD - 256GB (OS X & Apps, move FCP libs here, then back to data when done if it's small enough, ProRes files seem to get HUGE)
Hitachi 2TB (Data storage, music, logic files, photos, etc.) - down to less than 100GB
WD Green 2TB (TM Backup, can't backup anymore because it's out of space)
My priority is to get a 4TB TimeMachine in place, I've ran without a backup before and it didn't end well.
I really liked Hitachi drives but as I started researching I've found out they were bought by WD, then sold to Toshiba, so are Toshiba drives really Hitachi drives? Are WD drives Hitachi drives? Are Hitachi drives Hitachi drives (sorry, not trying to be annoying but researching this has driven me in circles..)
My next idea was to take two new 2TB Hitachi drives (7200 rpm, 64MB cache) and put them in an OS X RAID0 - think this would be 'cool' for FCPX performance? (just ProRes HD files) Additionally this array would be my data drive. It'd be nice not to have to copy libraries back and forth.
Then when I can afford it, I'd get a 500GB SSD and put it in an PCIe card to use as my OS X and app drive, then use the existing 256GB SSD as a scratch for Photoshop (don't deal with crazy files here too often) and FCPX - would it make sense to get a PCI card that holds two SSDs or would I bottle neck having FCPx & it's scratch disk on the same PCI card? Or two separate PCI cards? - One for OS X & apps and one for scratch? Or would the existing SATA connection on the SSD be OK for a scratch disk?
Does this make sense? Am I overlooking something? Is there anyway to get a 'Hitachi' drive anymore? (only brand that hasn't failed on me, though the last one I bought came before all the manufacturers went crazy and started buying each other and before the floods)
External storage to me seems kind of like a pain in the butt and not as fast as internal, I'm not thrilled about adding a USB3 or eSata card to get the job done.
Thanks for reading and I appreciate any advice anyone can offer.