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I'm going to setup a RAID 0 for performance reasons on my box. For those using CC for CS6 and LR, don't you have to Deactivate it if you want to re-install on a new installation of your OS? I do understand that RAID 0 has no fault tolerance, but that's OK. My org files will be on a separate hard drive outside the Raid. I'll copy a set to the Raid for editing. Then copy the finals to the secondary non-raid drive. BTW, I did double up my memory on my system from 12 gig to 24, and it did help somewhat on faster load times from LR into PS, but still too long for my taste. Around 8 seconds. I did use a 3 gigl RAM drive and SSD drive, for scratch on the CS6 and LR. I did find out this week, that if I just export out from LR to .psd files, then import them into LR they load up in 1/2 the time. It's just that the export routine will take a couple of hours, so I'm my next shoot where I'll be editing 800 or so images, I may just run the export during the night before. Any info on the deactivation would be great. EDIT: Ok, I see where it can be un-installed from the CC Cloud app on my system. Now I'm wondering if I un-install it, and re-install it on the new clean install of the OS, will my subscription price change? Hmmmmm, me thinks I'm going to contact Adobe before I go further. Mar 05 17 09:28 am Link Did you upgrade your pre-historic CPU to a modern unit ? Mar 05 17 10:02 am Link Brooklyn Bridge Images wrote: No.... Just memory. I believe the i7 920 is a pretty decent chip. If I replace the MOBO and Chip it will be the last phase. Memory upgrade was first. RAID 0, next.... since I have the SATA drives laying here to use. Next would be a new video card. Adding another SSD for scratch "possibly". Mar 05 17 10:30 am Link PhillipM wrote: Brooklyn Bridge Images wrote: No.... Just memory. I believe the i7 920 is a pretty decent chip. If I replace the MOBO and Chip it will be the last phase. Memory upgrade was first. RAID 0, next.... since I have the SATA drives laying here to use. Next would be a new video card. Adding another SSD for scratch "possibly".[/quote Mar 05 17 10:58 am Link PhillipM wrote: I have CS6 and LR 6. Some others too that require deactivation before reinstalling. Mar 05 17 11:43 am Link thanks gr... I've used Clonezilla a couple of times to image drives. I have 3 250 gig drives. Two of which I was going to use for the raid. I can image my system drive to the 3rd, before I create the raid, then image them with it. Mar 05 17 02:19 pm Link Phillip, you can resize the partition within Macrium Reflect before cloning it, at least you can from an image created with it. You have Partition Properties as an option above the target drive 'box', using this you can expand the partition size to the capacity of the destination drive. Mar 06 17 03:50 pm Link Thanks Kool. l I talked with Adobe today. I can actually install PS/LR CC on two systems without violating a license. I removed my SSD with the OS on it, and threw in 2 - 250 gig drives and configured RAID0 on them. When I left Win7 was updating. Tomorrow I'll add a SSD drive for scratch purposes, and install CC, then load up some RAW files and see how long it takes to open PSD's from LR. My files open fairly decent. It's those huge files from the camera I rent when shooting this catalog work, that takes around 9 seconds to open. When you have to edit a 1000 images that seems like an eternity. Mar 06 17 04:45 pm Link Well, I got my RAID 0 setup with (2) 250 gig SATA drives I had laying around. I have a windows paging swap file on the SSD 120 gig drive, as well as PS / LR cache on it too. When I export my RAWS out to PSD's, and import those into LR, they open in PS in 2 seconds... Now the real test will be in 2 weeks when I have those BIG files to load up. I can run the export function during the night before I have to edit the PSD's too. I may just go with all SSD for the RAID 0 & scratch/paging.. I did in fact talk with a guy that runs a Computer Retail place, about my current MOBO and Processor. We discussed the options of either upgrading the CPU -vs- RAID 0 . Mar 08 17 02:21 pm Link Not sure of how over the top you wish to go, but here are a few of my suggestions. I went from an I-7 2600 cpu with HDD to an I-7 6700K cpu with SSD, with the newer DDR4 ram plus a 1060 3GB video card, it bumped my performance by more than 25%. [As measured with a clock by observing load times, and how long it took to render images] Another suggestion is RAID 10, I have tried it with four 1 TB Western Hard Disk Drives, in windows 10, interesting and positive feedback from the operating system “Notification” of something to the effect my system data is protected. My next step will be to build a RAID 10 array, using a real RAID add in card, and four 500 GB SSD drives. I had to deactivate Adobe off one set of system drives then reactivate on the new setup. I wish you well Mar 10 17 07:56 am Link Lee_Photography wrote: Thanks Lee. Mar 10 17 02:23 pm Link I am surprised you feel the need to set up a RAID 0 configuration. I set up my Photoshop box quite differently. I used a smallish SSD for the system drive (OS + software), another for scratch, and then multiple working drives. I never copy images I'm working on onto the system drive - I use some fast 256GB drives. Copying images from a CF card using a USB3 reader to one of the staging drives runs almost as fast as the card can be read. When I've finished with a shoot I archive to magnetic storage, then wipe the staging drive - can't get faster than running to a blank drive. I strongly recommend keeping the working storage completely separate from the system drive. Also means you can swap out the working drives for larger drives if you need them. Mar 11 17 11:13 am Link Frozen Instant Imagery wrote: 15K rpm drives? Mar 11 17 03:34 pm Link |
