jarggo Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Hi! Just bought a new PC with small SSD for programs and a regular one for storing. Over the years my maps folder has been growing relatively large and I don't want to fill the SSD with that stuff. Then again I want to use maximum cababilities and the question is does it really matter that max maps (textures) are in different drive than the program itself? Does it make working/rendering slower? Thank you in advance! J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Matthews Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 I haven't noticed a substantial difference. Just make sure you are connected with the fastest connection possible (i.e. SATA 6) and the large HD is fast enough (i.e. 7200RPM or faster). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theeastcoastwest Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 A lot of the maps I use are stored on an external HD. Standard seagate 1TB that spins @ 7200rpm. I don't have much experience with SSDs yet, but occasionally I use maps that are on my tower's main HD (VelociRaptor 10,000rpm) and don't really notice much difference. Like Jason said, making sure you are using the fastest connections available to you is helpful. If you have a external hard drive make sure its connected to a usb port that is as fast as it is capable of. For example, plugging a XHD with usb 3.0 into a peripheral usb port limited to 2.0 wouldn't be in your best interest. As far as rendering goes it shouldn't make a difference. To the best of my understanding maps are loading into ram memory pre-render. I have noticed sometimes they load a little slower depending on different locations. Once they are loaded though, rendering should proceed at normal speeds. That is my somewhat basic understanding of it only though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimitris Tolios Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 I would say that with a properly fast, high capacity HDD you won't see much difference. SATA II or III doesnt' make much difference - even the best single HDD drive cannot saturate the slower one in anything but burst speed reads, so I would not worry about it. You might notice a difference in REALLY large scenes loading the scene before render, and of course the initial launch of programs or but other than that it is insignificant. Just defrag your drive (not the SSD!) every-now-and-then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarggo Posted January 29, 2013 Author Share Posted January 29, 2013 Thanks guys! I'll setup the machine then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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