Hi, I am building a new comp this fall with the i7 4790k. I work After Effects and I want my project folder to be fast. Really fast. Some of my coworkers bragged about 700mbs score on the Imac fusion drive. Impressive. My SSD at job only reach 200.
How could I make sure that my mobo and ssd are the best combo/setup out there??
thanks
You could look into PCI-E SSDs.
I’ve seen “up to 2900 mb/s” specs on some server models.
Still pretty expensive though…
Older SSD drives would give around 200-300 mb/s, one mistake a few people make is connecting the ssd to an older 3gbit sata port instead of the 6gbit ports, so make sure its connected in the right place.
As for newer tech, anything you connect to a standard sata port is going to top out at 500 mb/s, thats just the limit of the port. For anything faster youre either looking at pcie cards which arent cheap, or look into the new “M.2 gen 3” port on newer motherboards. The current cards for this will do 1100 mb/sec, but be careful, there are M.2 Sata cards and M.2 PCIE cards, the Sata cards are just as ‘slow’ as regular sata drives.
Newest motherboard like this one?
And could you point me to one such ssd m.2 gen3 as they dont seem to write gen3 on the tag…
http://www.newegg.ca/SSDs/Category/ID-119?Tpk=ssd
thanks
The “Fusion Drive” is a regular SATA HDD with a SATA SSD used for buffering and caching. You can get the exact same functionality using this technology from Intel. There are lots of boards out there that support it.
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/smart-response-technology.html
If you want even more performance you could build an array of SSD and just skip the HDD completely. While SSD are still a lot more per GB than HDD if you just work off of the array for active projects and store plus backup things elsewhere for longer term storage it’s not unreasonably expensive anymore.