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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

6K Edit Station

Hmmm... so here is how I may proceed. Tell me if you see anything better (other than lowering the redundant costs.)

I'll set up my 1 TB SSD as OS and after getting all my Adobe updates from CC, I'll make a complete copy to a standby 1 TB SSD using a docking station that copies to like-sized or larger drives. And since it's a relatively simple thing to change SSDs, when finished with a project I'll just swap the drives out before starting a new project, thus keeping the previous project intact until being assured it is no longer needed to be available for changes. Once that project is confirmed to be ready for archive, I'll simply move it to archival storage and format the SSD, then copy from the OS and app SSD in preparation for another mobile Work Station under-a-TB project.

This should take care of all small to medium sized projects as I will have two drives to rotate in and out of use. For larger in house projects, I'll have a Thunderbolt 2 connected Rocket Stor 6351a to plug in external drives via USB 3 and/or eSATA connections. Probably a bit slower than having it all on one SSD, but time will be less critical in an in-house edit.
 
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You can do that but if your going to have the 2nd SSD anyway then why not just use it as a media drive and off load the projects when done to intermediate archive storage.
 
Eric Bowen said:
You can do that but if your going to have the 2nd SSD anyway then why not just use it as a media drive and off load the projects when done to intermediate archive storage.
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I'm thinking this way so I can periodically reformat the drives to recover speed. At least, my understanding was that merely deleting files does not restore efficiency to the SSD.

OTOH, I detected a flaw in my plan in that I need to store my OS and APPS on a smaller HD to use for re-imaging either of the 1TB SSDSs... since while holding footage and edits on one of the drives for a time while using the second one, would mean I wouldn't have an OS/APPS only drive to re-image from.

Solved by imaging OS/APPS onto a small source drive.
 
The SSD drives only lose speed when constantly writing and deleting files. That is rarely the case in large enough number for OS drives if you dont put media there. Docs and email are not enough to do this. So you shouldnt need to reset the OS SSD much at all if the media goes on another SSD drive.
 
Eric Bowen said:
The SSD drives only lose speed when constantly writing and deleting files. That is rarely the case in large enough number for OS drives if you dont put media there. Docs and email are not enough to do this. So you shouldnt need to reset the OS SSD much at all if the media goes on another SSD drive.
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Understood, but this being a mobile Work Station, it has only one SATA III slot for a 2.5" HD (there are, however 2 slots for m.2 PCIe SSD drives, and I have them on hand but cannot figure out where they are slotted in on my Msi WS60 thin laptop.) Therefore, to remain fully on-set mobile, I'll need everything on one Drive, especially if all reads and writes are done on the one drive, which my understanding is, = faster.

If I could find where the PCIe slots are (must be under the mainboard as I can't see anything that resembles open slots by just taking the back off) I would use the smaller 2 lane one I have as the OS and APP drive. Then I would use the 512 super fast 4 lane PCIe m.2 drive to store edits and debayers, etc. and use the 1 TB SATA III SSD for source footage.

Not really planning on using this computer for Internet stuff, other than updating Adobe CC.



TO THE OP: Apologies if my questions appear as thread-jacking... but the thread had not updated in a few days so I didn't think of my postings as being overt thread-jacking.
 
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Normally the m.2 ports are under the main bottom plate on the laptop or under the keyboard. Each laptop manufacturer is different there. The Reads and writes on the same drive is not faster on an SSD. It's just the SSD drives are so fast ie low latency they can handle that well. 2 SSD drives is better than 1 no matter what in this scenario.
 
Eric Bowen said:
Normally the m.2 ports are under the main bottom plate on the laptop or under the keyboard. Each laptop manufacturer is different there. The Reads and writes on the same drive is not faster on an SSD. It's just the SSD drives are so fast ie low latency they can handle that well. 2 SSD drives is better than 1 no matter what in this scenario.
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Ahh! That clears things up in my mind (about the read/write options.)

The under-keyboard placement of the m.2 slots probably isn't the case with this laptop since the keyboard doesn't appear to be removable except after a complete teardown of the case by gutting it.

So assuming you mean the blue colored board (mainboard?) since there is nothing that could pass as a bottom plate, then I may just be compelled to wait until the warranty runs out before tackling that chore.

Much thanks Eric for sharing your knowledge and help.
 
By bottom plate, I mean normally the largest plate on the bottom that allows you to open the laptop inside up and add the CPU, Ram, HDD's and such. If you flip your laptop over do you see a plate with screws that allows you to remove it and open up the bottom inside of the laptop?
 
Eric Bowen said:
By bottom plate, I mean normally the largest plate on the bottom that allows you to open the laptop inside up and add the CPU, Ram, HDD's and such. If you flip your laptop over do you see a plate with screws that allows you to remove it and open up the bottom inside of the laptop?
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Eric, surely you do not mean the back cover? When I take that off, all I see is a blue board, a place for the 2.5" SSD, two speakers, two fans, 3 thin two-celled battery packs (3"x4") in a backward L configuration on the lower right side (not under there... I've checked.) I'll try to get a picture up when time permits. Probably not tonight though.
 
We're going to be doing a 13 part, one hour series and mastering to 4K for US and 1080 for Canada shooting with Red Dragons. Production will begin June 1st.

We've got the Avid 8.3 Symphony and will colour time on a Barco 4K-19B. PC the way to go?
 
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