Hi there, I'm upgrading an old Mac Pro to be my main edit machine. I've got a PCIe SSD, a standard SSD, and a 7200 HDD.
If I'm separating based on:
The OS or the media drive?
Now if we're not talking about video editing and we're talking about editing photoshop files with many layers/masks, would that be better suited on the fastest drive, or am I going to see more speed gains from having the photoshop application live on the fastest drive?
More details on my setup:
macOS Mojave
Version 10.14.3
Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Model Identifier: 5,1 (Firmware flashed from 4,1)
Boot ROM Version 140.0.0.0.0
Processor: 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 48 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 (Actually 1333MHz, but I think I need to upgrade the processor first)
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX650 2047 MB (Trying to upgrade to EVGA GeForce GTX780 SuperClocked w/EVGA ACX Cooler 3GB GDDR5 384bit but keep having issues somewhere between the web drivers or the type of power cables I’m using, I just got an 8 Pin to dual SATA cable that I’m going to test here soon though)
Seagate Barracuda SSD SATA III 6Gb/s 1TB SSD Max sequential read/write speeds reach 540/520 MB/s
Mercury Accelsior Pro Q 480GB PCIe Solid-state Drive Max sequential read/write speeds reach 1647/905 MB/s
Seagate BarraCuda Internal Hard Drive 8TB SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache x2 7200 RPM
If I'm separating based on:
- OS Drive
- Media Drive
- Cache
The OS or the media drive?
Now if we're not talking about video editing and we're talking about editing photoshop files with many layers/masks, would that be better suited on the fastest drive, or am I going to see more speed gains from having the photoshop application live on the fastest drive?
More details on my setup:
macOS Mojave
Version 10.14.3
Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Model Identifier: 5,1 (Firmware flashed from 4,1)
Boot ROM Version 140.0.0.0.0
Processor: 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 48 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 (Actually 1333MHz, but I think I need to upgrade the processor first)
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX650 2047 MB (Trying to upgrade to EVGA GeForce GTX780 SuperClocked w/EVGA ACX Cooler 3GB GDDR5 384bit but keep having issues somewhere between the web drivers or the type of power cables I’m using, I just got an 8 Pin to dual SATA cable that I’m going to test here soon though)
Seagate Barracuda SSD SATA III 6Gb/s 1TB SSD Max sequential read/write speeds reach 540/520 MB/s
Mercury Accelsior Pro Q 480GB PCIe Solid-state Drive Max sequential read/write speeds reach 1647/905 MB/s
Seagate BarraCuda Internal Hard Drive 8TB SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache x2 7200 RPM