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Barry Bishop

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I have a macbook Pro 2011 (this is for when im on a shoot)
Should I buy a 512 SATA III SSD or increase my ram from 4gb to 8 or 16?
Buying a scarlet and just trying to figure where the best ROI would be.

-Barry
 
Barry Bishop said:
I have a macbook Pro 2011 (this is for when im on a shoot)
Should I buy a 512 SATA III SSD or increase my ram from 4gb to 8 or 16?
Buying a scarlet and just trying to figure where the best ROI would be.

-Barry
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Are you just transferring or are you checking/converting footage?
 
yes both!
I just bought 8gb of ram and an SSD...trying to decide to make it a master or a slave inside the macbook pro
 
Barry Bishop said:
yes both!
I just bought 8gb of ram and an SSD...trying to decide to make it a master or a slave inside the macbook pro
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Of course make it your master (OS) drive. There are huge practical benefits to this.
 
In our MBP's I remove the optical drive and put a 1TB drive there, and use an SSD in the system drive bay. That way you get the boot speed of SSD and the offload storage of up to 1TB.

For offloading the fastest the footage is going to come in is via eSATA so a good mechanical drive will be fine.
 
The performance gains will come from on what drive the swap space is and where you are doing renders.
 
Sooo.
Make SSD master drive move the platter drive to where the DVD player is on the macbook pro for storage?
 
Is there really a point to move it?

why not just shove the SSD on the data Doubler?

(unless you have the newest 17" MBP, with the dodgy, SATA3 on the optical)
 
Richard Tran said:
Is there really a point to move it?

why not just shove the SSD on the data Doubler?

(unless you have the newest 17" MBP, with the dodgy, SATA3 on the optical)
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Don't absolutely have to. In previous gen MacBook Pros though they would act flaky during system updates if the system drive was not in the OEM location. Pus it only takes another minute or two during installation to move it.
 
Richard Tran said:
(unless you have the newest 17" MBP, with the dodgy, SATA3 on the optical)
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The SATA3 in the new MBP's isn't really dodgy, it's the cabling! Replace the cabling with shielded cables for both the SSD/HDD and Optical bays and you can rock 6Gbps just fine. :)
 
wait I'm confused. I only need the shielded cable if I have a 17in? I was thinking take out the Master Drive and make it slave and use the new SSD as the master.
I was just assuming to get a mounting bracket for the HD to replace the DVD drive. I have a 2011 macbook pro 15in
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
The SATA3 in the new MBP's isn't really dodgy, it's the cabling! Replace the cabling with shielded cables for both the SSD/HDD and Optical bays and you can rock 6Gbps just fine. :)
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Ah, I read about the cabling, but it was hit and miss with some users.

Referenced from

macperformanceguide.net's site.
 
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