Maxwell Render

Hi,
I want to buy a SSD hard drive.
Does someone know if it will have influence ( agood one ) on render time with maxwell ?

It will make a small difference in overall rendertime due to quicker read/write times, but not a substantial difference. I'd still recommend an SSD though.

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Brian Looney
Maxwell + RealFlow
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Help! I'm dispersing into a haze of probability!

thank you brian

I bought a Kensington SSD to test it out. It really did not improve my render times except for a couple of seconds on a minute and a half render.

It was on a 4 core single chip machine. I tested it with the Maxon cinebench tester. I had the operating system (OSX Snow Leopard) and program on the SSD.

SSDs also slow down over time as writing files to them wears them down. Maybe another brand such as OWC fares better.

Steven Houtzager

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Let me add this think :

If you have some PCs that render in network, SSD as the shared drive is a serious plus :
let's say you have 10 PCs rendering, all of them will go get maps/scenes from a single network place, so starting the real rendering can take a while, and can make the hard drive in pain...

When sending final mxi (often veeeery large files) : same thing.

So i put an fast SSD as the shared disk to put all stuff for network rendering, and a lot faster to start and to end the rendering...
Plus : silence : no more annoying hard disk noise...

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Claudio 'Naxos' gallego, CG artist and teacher...
http://www.chromelight-studio.fr
"1+1=3... for large values of 1"
"Circle is the fastest way from a point to itself"