Feedback required to setup CS6 based edit machine

Question

Hi
We are an independent film making unit and are about to start the edit process for our feature documentary (mixed medium). We have footage shot on DSLR, avchd format, iphone, ipad etc. Thus Premiere Pro (with GPU accelaration) was our first choice for an edit platform since it saves us tonnes of conversions.
We are trying to put together an edit machine, which will later be used for animation purposes too. This is the config we have come up with. Feedback regarding the same in context to CS6 support would be great.
1) Intel i7 3930K 3.2GHz 6 core
2) Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 PRO
3) graphic card: EVGA GTX Titan superclocked
4) Corasir 1200 W PSU
5) Corsair H100i cooler
6) Gskill 16GB (8GB x2) DDR3 2400MHz x2= 32GB ram
7) hdd : Seagate Barracuda 1 TB Desktop Internal Hard Drive 7200 rpm
    hdd2 : Seagate Barracuda 3 TB Desktop Internal Hard Drive 7200 rpm
A major confusion we have is regarding the graphic card. We have heard that the Titan is good for gaming purposes but not many reviews are out there in context to edit renders and animation renders. Please Help.

Answer 1

This thread got side tracked, bad.
The 3930k is a great CPU for such a build. I'm not sure about the Titan, but in theory it should be very good for both tasks based on the specs.
The biggest thing I would change about your setup is the disks. a 256gb for os/programs, 128gb if you're just using the CS suite and maybe 1-2 3D applications. This will only improve operating speed, which is really nice.
A single 3tb HDD for your projects is going to be a serious bottleneck for your editing, I would suggest at least 2 HDD's in raid O or, depending on the size of the project data, another SSD. Raid 5 with 4 1TB HDDs would give you speed, security, and lots of storage, but if you go with large HDD's the risk of data loss is pretty high. With something like this I would think about RAID 1+0 with 4 2tb HDD's, 4tb of storage, around double the speed of a single HDD, and a mirror incase of disk failure.
IMO for video editing, if you don't go at least RAID 0 with two decent HDD's, the titan and 3930k aren't going to get utilized enough to justify the cost. If money is a thing, drop down to a GTX 680 or even a GTX 580, from what I've seen the 580 is a great card for editing. You could even go down to a GTX570, and you'd probably get better overall performance with that and a good disk setup than you would with 2 HDD's and a the titan.
Disk speed doesn't only affect render speed, it affects how quickly premiere can digest the footage. Dragging and dropping 30-50gb of footage into a premiere project can take forever on a single disk system, but with an SSD or good RAID setup, that time can be cut down dramatically. Same goes for playback, if you've got multiple streams of dense material going through the editor you'll end up with dropped frames and skipping because the HDD can't feed the system fast enough. With a large project like yours I'm sure having better disk performance would make the whole process more smooth.
If you look at the results of the new PPBM, mine is the last, and it uses a single HDD for projects. Now my system is probably slower in other areas also, it's powered by a 3770k at 4.4ghz and a GTX 660, but even on my system I'm bottlenecked by my HDD. Then again, I work on 1-2 minute projects containing maybe 3-4gb of footage from a DSLR, so a better disk setup would kind of be overkill because my render times are already short. But if I had a large project to work on, I'd be waiting around for footage to import, waiting forever for renders, and having to deal with skipped/dropped frames with high bitrate/multicam footage.