ssd and vegas?

aituv

aituv

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hi,
so will upgrading to ssd be worth it? current specs are:

i7 920
12GB ddr3
gtx 460

main internal drive is WD 7200/RPM 1TB

i mainly use vegas for editing, everything seems good but what are the true advantages of upgrading to ssd in regards to editing? i understand faster read and write speeds, but my footage will still be on external drives from which i cut, faster booting thats it? also what recommendations? i hear crucial c300 is the best for speeds, and intel x- for reliability?

thanks.
 
I noticed that it made my similarly equipped PC feel snappier in general, and in particular for loading content on my time line. Rendering speeds will improve marginally, and will be noticeable if your old SATA 3 drive has been a bottleneck.
 
thanks for the quick reply. how much pain is it reinstalling everything and getting it all set up including reinstalling windows? could i leave my current hard drive attached (with the OS and all software) and install a fresh copy on the ssd?
 
Glad I could help. It's just a bit more complicated than a normal reinstall because of the TRIM set up, which maximizes it's performance within Windows 7.

You will need to remove your current system drive during the reinstall and connect your SSD to the same SATA port as your old boot drive to keep it simple. After Install, wipe your old 1TB C drive (after transferring important data) and use it for storage.
 
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My system is an i7-920 with 6 GB RAM. It started out as a Vista-64 system running on a 500GB HDD. About 8 mos. ago I converted to Win7-64 running on a 64GB Kingston SSD and doing that was the single most noticeable performance improvement I have ever made to any system. So I heartily recommend going to an SSD boot drive. Here are some points that should help you do that:

1. You must do a clean install of Win7. This is the only way Win7 can properly set up your SSD. What I did (as previously suggested) was to simply unplug my 500GB HDD and start with a brand new SSD and the Win7 install disk.

2. You do have to completely reinstall all your software. There is no way to get around this.

3. After you have the SSD installed go into your BIOS and set AHCI (Advanced Host Control Interface) to On for the SSD. Trim needs this and your system will default to IDE mode (or maybe it's SATA mode, I forget which.)

4. In order for #3 to work your SSD should not be connected to the same SATA header as an optical drive. Most SATA headers come in pairs, so be sure the SD is connected to its own header. (This one took me a week to resolve.)

5. The current versions of Vegas do not have to be tweaked to run OK on a 64-bit OS. This means they don't crash when rendering.

6. I use the SSD only for OS & applications. All my data is stored on the 500GB HDD (including Vegas input video files.) My SSD has only about 24GB of stuff on it.

7. If you disconnect your current HDD boot drive and install WIn7 on the SSD, when you reconnect the HDD all your old system files will still be on it. There are a couple of issues related to this:

7.1. You will not be able to delete the old Windows, Program Files, or Proram Data folders. Windows just will not do this no matter what you try. To delete them you have to boot off the Win7 install disk, get to a DOS prompt, and delete them from there. You can delete all your old software files etc. with no problem.

7.2. Because your HDD used to be the primary boot drive it will still have it's boot sector marked as Primary Partition. This won't stop your system from booting from the SSD, but it can cause problems if you later have some sort of partition problem. There is a DOS command you can use to re-set the primary partition to the SSD but I can't remember the name of it right now. You should be able to find an explanation in #8.

8. An excellent source of info on everything related to SSD's is http://ssdtechnologyforum.com/forum.php. That site helped me a lot.

9. An SSD really won't help your rendering times much unless you render to the SSD itself. Rendering is primarily a CPU-intensive process, and the i7, with 8 CPUs, is ideal for this. What I did was add an external 1TB HDD for render output. My system renders 1920x1080 video at about 4X real time. Note that I have an nVidia 9600GT video card; Vegas uses the GPU on this when rendering HD video.
 
sounds great, just ordered my corsair 128gb NOVA series with TRIM support, was a long debate between crucial c300 but after hearing stories from reliable sources that crucials speeds tend to fall while corsairs + TRIM perform as new at all times, and reliability is awesome. so now waiting for some scores to go up in my windows expereince thing, everthing at 7.5 range while my old drives at 5.9 :/
 
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