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Post Date: 2007-10-28
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    Posted: 28 Oct 2007 at 1:27pm
I am seriously looking at the solid state Fusion io "ioDrive" that is reported to be releasing in December.  I'm considering their small 80Gb drive for my C: drive on a high end HD video editing and Photoshop system.

Details about the solid state drive can be found on a number of sites but I'm including a link to Egadget here:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/fusion-ios-iodrive-puts-power-of-a-san-on-a-pcie-card/

And the Fusion io website

http://www.fusionio.com/

The 80Gb "ioDrive" is expected to be a very steep $2400, but the review's comment that the ioDrive can perform "nearly a thousand times faster than any existing disk drive," makes it look like something to wait for and worth the cost for Photoshop and HD video editing.

I am aware but without much knowledge of the recent SSDs from SanDisk and Mtron but they seem like slugs compared to the "ioDrive."

Anyone have more wisdom on this than I do?

Thanks,       Michael
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Having done lots of video editing/encoding as well as photoshop for almost 8 years now, I can tell you that your proc and memory are the two bottlenecks when doing that stuff... not your HDD.


I would be interested to see how fast it runs with the OS though...I would "wait and see" what the difference really is.
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Ed1371 is right. Photoshop CS2/CS3 and any video editing apps just need a really really fast CPU ( quadcore) and lots of RAM to run well not a fast HDD.
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Originally posted by commast

Ed1371 is right. Photoshop CS2/CS3 and any video editing apps just need a really really fast CPU ( quadcore) and lots of RAM to run well not a fast HDD.


But...how does "lots of RAM" for CS3 work on a 32bit OS?  People keep trying to explain this to me on the Adobe forum but they keep giving slightly different answers.  Aren't we limited to 2.7Gb (some say 2.9Gb) of usable RAM on a 32bit system?

It would be nice to be able to use 4Gb or more with CS3, but...???

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Yeah, I would like someone to give a good clear answer on that as well. 

The students are all here and present.  Anyone want to be the teacher?

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This is by no means a clear answer to any questions, but rather hearsay that I'm passing along. From what I've heard, just because the operating system can't recognize the RAM, doesn't mean that certain programs can't access it. So I guess this would mean that Photoshop CS can utilize as much memory as there is on the system. Again though, that's just hearsay. 
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Skyr made the best reference,

Think of it like water being the ram, objects being devices, container being 32bit os, and a tub being a 64bit os.

You have a container completely filled with water. If you decide to put like soap, brick, or whatever in the container. The container will get rid of some water (overflow) because it needed space for the object. But with a tub, it wouldn't overflow because there is a lot more space...

It's exactly how all 32 bit system operates. It get rids of ram if there is no where else to take memory from.
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Originally posted by mgrmgr

 
But...how does "lots of RAM" for CS3 work on a 32bit OS?  People keep trying to explain this to me on the Adobe forum but they keep giving slightly different answers.  Aren't we limited to 2.7Gb (some say 2.9Gb) of usable RAM on a 32bit system?

It would be nice to be able to use 4Gb or more with CS3, but...???

Confused in the big city,    Michael


Actually Window 32 can use about 3.12 GB of RAM but the more devices you have the lower the amount of RAM available to you. It would be nice to use more than 4GB for CS3 but you don't really need it. Photoshop use about 55% of the system RAM at its default setting. You can set it higher if you want. Photoshop also utilize your HDDs as scratch disk for storage too. The most important thing CS3 need is a really really fast CPU for calculation (Think Quad Core). RAM and HDD are just secondary. CS3 works just great with 2 GB of RAM.



Edited by commast - 08 Nov 2007 at 2:31pm
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