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I'm having some trouble editing HD with my current default hard drive, so I thought about buying a ssd, but now do I have to move all my apps and OS to the ssd? If so, how do I do that? Or can I just move my render folder to the ssd and make it my primary scratch disk? I knew I should of got the ssd but it totally slipped my mind when I bought the Mac.
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7), Mac OS X Snow Leopard
An SSD is just another (very very fast) disk.
Do whatever you want to after it's installed, partitioned and formatted (Using Disk Utitlity).
Thanks, also, do you think I need a raid card for editing HD?
You don't 'need' a RAID card for anything.
A RAID setup can:
Oh, I see. I just read in another post that SSD are not so great for Video Editing, do you have any suggestions to what drive I should get that is fast enough to edit high quality video?
I don't see why they wouldn't be ok for video editing.
How did we do video editing before SSDs?
I would get the largest, fastest one you can afford. Buy from a reputable dealer. Google to find all the options available.
I have a 1TB Macintosh HD hardrive at the moment, but I cannot understand why it struggles with HD.
Are there any other slowdowns in other programs?
Is the problem only with editing HD?
You usually clone the OS and apps only to SSD.
SSD is useful for audio, can be used for scratch where you are short RAM for CS5.
A WD Black 1.5TB $108 is fine, maybe a couple.
Software stripe RAID for editing, one for system, and for backup - you could go with WD Green 2TB for backups.
http://www.macperformanceguide.com has a "slew" to tips on hard drives, upgrading, and configuring - and Hitachi Ultrastar 3TB. You should look over his site.
First and foremost, clone and clean up and repair, even erase and restore from clone, with your current system and figure out why or what is wrong now.
People buy $$$ ! SSDs then want to limit the writes to preserve the life of the cells and the performance. I feel they are tools to be used.
You never want to leave just the OEM hard drive, or leave other hard drive bays empty. Use 'em.
Well what happened was I experienced dropped frames when viewing my video in the timeline of FCP, and the error message said that my drive is to slow. Motion crashes on me sometimes too, everything else works fine. I actually though it was to do with the music I was using because I recorded it my self using Presonus Studio one and I've noticed that it doesn't always come out the same when I mix down to audio file.
Solid State drive 512gb, does it need to be the primary drive with final cut loaded on it?
