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I've read through the suggested drive arrangements for 4 drives, but mine is a bunch of different drives and I would like some help. I have some drives coming and would like to set them up to be most efficient for PPro CS5 and Encore CS5. Here is what I have (or will have in the next few days):
Drive 1: New SSD for OS (win7 - 64) and programs - it is a Crucial C300-256GB and will be here in a few days.
Drive 2: A new WD Black 1TB - It will be here tomorrow.
Drive 3: Samsung 1TB drive
Drive 4: Hitachi 750 GB drive
I have run some benchmarks on drive 3 & 4 and they are about the same - not terribly fast. I assume that Drive 2 will be the fastest of the hard drives, and of course the SSD will be the fastest of them all. Any suggestions?
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You have a really strong system!
Assuming you are running CS5, your system would benefit most from some level of RAID and to be fully balanced. I would suggest one of the following to match up with the rest of your setup:
1) hardware RAID w/ redundancy (i.e. RAID 5, etc.) with 5 1TB drives (between $1000 - $1500)
2) 3 or 4 drive RAID 0, by adding matching drives to any of the 3 drives that you have already (only pick one, retire the other two) (between $125 - $250)
Either of these options would require buying new drives (matched drives are strongly recommended for RAID arrays), and should be configured as per Harm's Generic Guideline for Disk Setup for Number of Disks = 5 (yes, even if you only go with a 3x RAID 0).
3) If you are really trying to save $$$, just follow Harm's guideline for Number of Disks = 4 and use your current drives, however I'm sensing with your choice of boot drive (pretty sweet C300!) you probably would not mind adding some additional matched drives and then using the leftover 2 unmatched drives for backups or other use.
The following thread includes some before / after mention of how CS5 performance was impacted by changes to drives in terms of PPBM5 benchmark testing:
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