Thanks Alan. I checked all my external drives (I have two storage towers and 13 individual external G-Tech and WD drives) again, and all have eSata connectors. eSata is faster than FW800, the downside is that eSata drives can't be chained like FW drives can, so I definitely have to stay away from motherboards that only have 1 eSata connector if I want to be able to move data around between drives. I compared all Asus and MSI boards; only two mid-range Asus Z77 boards have two eSata connectors:
ASUS P8Z77-M PRO µATX (2 PCIe slots) ASUS P8Z77-V DELUXE (3 PCIe slots) So this is one micro-ATX and the other one is the one you suggested, Alan. I think I'll go for that one, then if I ever need drivers in the future I can just bug you and we can set up our own P8Z77-V DELUXE yahoogroup. hehehe. I would start with 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD and one 3TB 7200rpm Seagate for video data storage. I haven't decided on the video board yet. Alan suggested to use the on-board videochip, Neil suggested to get as much as CUDAs as possible. I await his reaction to the article/test I referred to. Another thing I'll definitely add now or in the future is a high quality audio board for home recording/mixing. I do a bit of electric guitar and synth playing. Any advice/suggestions for this are very welcome. As for future strategy, I'll forget about Firewire and Thunderbolt and will purchase storage towers with USB3 or LAN only from now on. For capturing my old SD/HDV tapes I can continue using my Apple, sooner or later all my tapes will be captured, which will be the end of the Firewire era for me. Also Neil, I checked out the new 6 core processor, didn't even know they existed, but this is really too fancy for me. I'm used to do my editing on a 3 year old MacBookPro with 4GB RAM and all-drives, I think I will be very happy with the 4 core Ivy Bridge with 16GB RAM and SSD. Rieni At 25-12-2012 02:16, Alan K Baker wrote: > > >SSDs can be partitioned, just like HDDs. The one >thing you must not do with a SSD is to defragment it. > >Regards, > >Alan. > >www.theatreorgans.co.uk >www.virtualtheatreorgans.com >www.paramountorganworks.com > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Rieni >To: <mailto:Adobe-Premiere%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected] >Sent: Monday, December 24, 2012 11:17 PM >Subject: Re: [AP] What PC for Premiere? > >Hi Alan, > >Ok I get it. And you think that in that case 256GB is big enough for >a SSD? What if I want a dual or even triple boot with Win7, Win8 and >Linux? Can anSSD be partitioned? > >Rieni [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
