Pre downsizing jpg's and other speed considerations

I am running PE8 on an old XP box and find it slow but would like to find ways to speed it up before I buy the next box.
I have 3GB ram, system is on C:, files are usually on E:, both HD. For my last project, I resized the jpgs to another directory with max size of 1600. My thinking was that PE had to downsize anyway and it made things go MUCH faster. When displayed, I didn't see any degradation of the image. The original were around 4k wide from Nikon D90 raw to jpg. Does it hurt do have source pics on a USB drive or should I have then on E: Any comments on best file location and resizing would be great.

Personally, I often locate my media on a separate physical HDD, for performance, but with two considerations: migrating Projects between computers, and then final housekeeping, when I am finished. In this first instance, my OS and programs are on C:\. My Projects are on D:\ and my Virtual Memory file on E:\, along with possibly my media files. All are internal SATA II's.
When I am dealing with my original Still Images, I keep those on a NAS in RAID 1. I always ONLY work from Copies of those. I may place those Copies onto E:\, but if I plan on migrating the Project to another computer, I will use one of my FW-800 externals, for the Project, the media (only Copies, except for Captuer from miniDV tapes) and my Scratch Disks. This then allows me to fully migrate the Project w/ everything needed, and also helps when they are done, with cleanup. If using externals, one big tip - set the drive letter in the OS, of every computer to the same one.
Good luck,
Hunt

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I've put up variations of this question in the iTunes section, now I thought I would see what I could find out if I posted this in a more general OS X Tiger forum...
to boil it down, my problem is that when I work in iTunes, the larger the library, the slower and more difficult it is.
is there any chance you could give some thought to the problem of speeding up iTunes? The way I see it, the program is marvelous, but it was designed more or less just for people transferring a few CDs to their hard drive and of course for buying music from the Apple Store.
It wasn't designed for what I'm doing with it, which is maintaining a mega-library of epic proportions - which is why working in it is so slow, even with a G5.
Is there anything you can think of that might speed it up - other than the obvious thing, which is to reduce the size of the library, which I actually do quite a lot!
w

that's what's so great about iTunes - and what ***** about it!
You CAN use it both to manage information about song-files, and you can also use it to play them! I couldn't do this in a database program, unless it were directly linked to a music-playing program. Even then, it couldn't creatively help with assembling playlists, both manually and automatically.
I wish Apple or some third party would develop iTunes pro or super-iTunes -
I wonder what the Library of Congress would do if it had to contend with having to put together an accessible, manipulatible digital archive of its holdings?
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Color space setting. See https://www.google.com/search?q=img+vs+_mg&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari .
Note these names are supplied by the camera and not by Aperture.
Aperture allows you to change the file names of Originals on import or after. I change mine to something useful to me on import. Search forum for "File Naming Convention".
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First of all, I have read Tweakers Page exporting section because that is where my primary concern is. First my questions, then background and my current and proposed configurations:
Question 1: Will adding a hardware RAID controller, such as an LSI MegaRAID remove enough burden from the CPU managing parity on my software RAID 5 that the CPU will jump for joy and export faster?
Question 2: If true to above, then compare thoughts on adding more smaller SSDs for either a one volume RAID 0 or smaller two volume RAID 0 to complement existing HDD RAID 5. That is, I'm thinking of buying four Samsung 850 Pro 128 GB SSDs to put in a four disk volume to handle everything (media/projects, media cache, previews, exports), or split it up into two volumes of two disks each and split the duties, or keep the four disk volume idea and put the previews & exports on my HDD RAID 5 array.
The 850's are rated at SEQ read/write: 550/470 MB/s thus I could get around 2000/1500 MB/s read write in a four disk RAID 0 or 1/2 that if I split into two volumes to minimize volumes from reading/writing at the same time, if that really matters with these SSDs?
The Tweaker's page made a few comments. One is splitting duties among different disks, rather than a large efficient RAID may actually slow things down. Since the SSDs are much faster than a single HDD, I'm thinking that is no longer accurate, thus I'm leaning toward the Four disk configuration putting OS & Programs on C drive, Media & Projects on D (HDD RAID 5), Pagefile & Media Cache on SSD (2-disk RAID 0) and Previews &Exports on 2nd SSD RAID 0 (or combine the two RAID 0's and their duties).
Just trying to get a perspective here, since I haven't purchased anything yet. Any experience/stories, I would appreciate.
My current drive configuration:
My D drive is software RAID 5 consisting of four 1 TB Western Digital RE4 (RED) 7200 RPM HDDs with a CrystalDiskMark SEQ Read/Write of 339/252 MB/s.
The C drive is SSD 500 GB (Samsung 840 (not Pro) and does 531/330 MB/s. My OS, Program Files and Page File are on C, and data/media files/project, etc all are on the RAID drive.
Problem:
Current setup allows for smooth editing, only the exporting seems slow, often taking between two and two and a half times the video length to export. Thus a 10 minute video takes 20-30 minutes to export. 15 minute video can take 30-40 minutes to export. The first 10% of the two-pass export takes under a minute (seems fast), but it gets slower where the final 10 or 20% can hang for many minutes like my system is running out of steam. So where is the waste?
I have enabled hardware acceleration (did the GPU hack since my GPU isn't listed) and it may spike at 25% usage a few times and eat up 600 MB of VRAM (I have 2 GB of VRAM), otherwise it is idle the whole export. The CPU may spike at 50% but it doesn't seem overly busy either.
Our timeline is simple with two video streams and two audio streams (a little music and mostly voice) with simple transitions (jump cuts or cross dissolves). We sometimes fast color correct, so that might use the GPU? Also, since we film in 1080 60P and export 1080 29.97 frames/sec, I think that is scaling and uses the GPU. I know without the GPU, it does take a lot longer. I have ruled out buying a faster GPU since it doesn't appear to be breaking a sweat. I just need to know if my system is bottlenecked at the hard drive level because I'm using software RAID and my disks are slow and will hardware RAID significantly reduce the CPU load so it can export faster.
Our files are not huge in nature. Most our clips are several MBs each. Total project files are between 5 GBs and 10 GBs for each video with Windows Media File export being 500 MB to 1.2 GB on average. We shoot using Panasonic camcorders so the original files are AVCHD, I believe (.MTS files?).
Considerations:
1. I'm thinking of buying (and future proofing) an LSI Logic MegaRAID 9361-8i that is 12Gb/s SAS and SATA (because some current SSDs can exceed the 6Gb/s standard).
2. I'm not replacing my current RAID 5 HDDs because not in my budget to upgrade to 6 or more large SSDs. These drives are more important to me for temporary storage because I remove the files once backed up. I don't mind a few inexpensive smaller SSDs if they can make a significant difference for editing and exporting.
I can only guess my HDD RAID is slow but the CPU is burdened with parity. I would imagine running RAID 10 would not help much.
My setup:
my setup:
CPU - i7-3930K CPU @4.5 GHz
RAM - G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3 2133 @2000
Motherboard - ASUS P9X79 WS LGA 2011
GPU - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 OC 2GB (performed the compatibility list hack to enable hardware acceleration).
C drive - 500 GB Samsung 840 SSD (Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and programs).
D drive - four 1 TB WD RE4 Enterprise HDDs 7200 RPMs in software RAID 5
Case - Cooler Master HAF X
CPU Fan - Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO with 120 mm fan
Power Supply - Corsair Pro Series AX 850 Watt 80 Plus Gold
Optical Drive - Pioneer BDR - 208DBK
thanks in advance,
Eric

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Visit the PPBM7 website and test your current setup to possibly identify current bottlenecks,or, performance issues. THEN, RE-TEST it again, after making improvements to your machine to see how it does. Be aware that new codecs are coming (H.265 and HEVC,etc.) which may demand more computer horsepower to edit, as they are even MORE compressed and engineered for "streaming" high quality at a lower bandwidth on the internet. The new Haswell E...with its quad-channel memory, 8 core option, large number of PCI gen. 3 lanes, goes farther in being prepared for 4K and more. Testing by Eric Bowen has shown the newer PPro versions provide MUCH better processing of 4K than older versions.

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That said, for this type of problem, you may want to consider Adobe technical support instead of the forum - I prefer chatting..
If you want some advice from a fellow blind user: try renaming your preferences file (and all other Lr data files if preference file doesn't make a difference, try a new catalog if still no luck). If still the same error, consider posting the rest of that error message - it could be you just need another "win 32" file not being installed by Lr installer, but without knowing the filename, it's kinda hard to say.........
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An image describing my problem:
http://i.imgur.com/hcqMYkv.jpg
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