Well, bad news, the SSD now shows up in BIOS but not in windows anymore. As it is the OCZ120 vertex II which is rather critised online, I am sceptic about whether it will get to work again. O well, should have read the forums a bit better and turn to a better brand.
In general, I would not store the only copy of photos on a SSD and use SSD only for fast processing.

Thanks / Tak Leif,
It's not always the size but the number of disks and quality of controller.
The two I have r IBM 1015 aka LSI 9240/9211 just very basic controllers

I had a 3ware controller until recently, but it didn't cope with SSD's.
So I swapped in a LSI 9280. It can take 6GB/s disks and it is made to handle SSD's
The speed from my 8 old SSD's more than doubled with the LSI controller :-)

leifs

Maybe you don't need a controller at all. The next level of speed will come from devices like the Revodrive, where the drive goes right into the bus without the SATA bottlenecks. Have a look at http://www.tomshardware.com/news/OCZ-Re … 13919.html
You can't boot from it, but it would be a nice scratch-disk

leifs

check for compatability with the revo drives as they are a bit flaky with some boards

Also be aware that some onboard Sata III controllers are not all what they are cracked up to be!!

Leif, that is a very nice RAID controller ;-) very nice:-)

Henrik

Yes during the whole discussion here the consensus is to buy RAM first. that will give autopano lots of breathing room.
If you installed max rampossible and you notice the pafefile/swapfile is still  very active, buy a ssd for it.
If you then find reading sourcefiles is slowing things down, you might want to copy them first to another ssd.

Of course ,wherever iwrite ssd you can read alternatively a raid-0 config with harddisk or ssd(preferable)

Hans,

you are just not pushing your system enough :-) i can max out my 48gb of ram which i will push to 96gb next month. then in the coming months replace my current 2nd gen SSD raid with 3rd gen but add more disks 6-8 in each array for 2+ gb/sec throughput (currently its 3-500mb/sec)
What am i expecting to happen? i will be able to do more editing without waiting on the computer, less chance of running out of fast temp disk space 200gb vs 1Tb, plus it will be 4x faster to off load temp data from disk.

it also means that i will be able to process and render panos, while being able to also juggle large pano's in photoshop.

but it does come at a cost

Henrik

ps: i m happy for you that its working so well

Hi Hans

When you say "lock the system", are you not able to do much else on it while this is taking place? are you looking at the Resource monitor in Task Manager (Performance tab)
How big in total is the 900 images? and are you only having SSD's in your system.
Could you write up your specs, please.

You basically need to look at how the data is travelling through the system, as in from device to device...eg. from HDD to Memory to CPU to memory, temp storage (disk), memory to CPU to memory (this can loop through till the data set has been completed) then it goes off to your rendering (CPU) and saving (back to disk).

As you know the CPU is the fastest device in your machine, pumping at the highest frequency, followed by your memory and then its the disks be it HDD's or SDDs are the slowest components. The frequency is translated into bandwidth which is limited by the PCIe 2.0 x16 to 8Gb/s if memory serves me right, now your onboard devices are most likely capped at max PCIe x8 so 4GB/s which I think you need something like 12-16 of the fastest SSD's to saturate, maybe even 24 SSD's so you are a fair way away from this point. (It takes about 8x SSD 2nd Gen to reach close to 2Gb/s).
I have no idea of how many HDD's it will take, plus latancy delays, to reach these numbers. (Currently 4x WD Black Caviar Sata-III will give me 3-500 mb/s in RAID-0 on a LSI 9240 controller PCIe x8).

I honestly think we are a fair way off to reach the softwares limitation, but I will try :-) to find it.

thanks

Henrik

Hello Hans
Have You check your system with sysinternals suite (processexplorer, processmonitor, filemonitor) when it's in such a low load while apg should work ?
With this tools you can look into every process and task and what it is doing (or not).

;-))

Last edited by pavka (2012-03-17 19:17:23)

lumelix wrote:

Hello Hans
Have You check your system with sysinternals suite (processexplorer, processmonitor, filemonitor) when it's in such a low load while apg should work ?
With this tools you can look into every process and task and what it is doing (or not).

Got the second ssd working and balanced the temp directories over them. Things are running good now, cpu above 80 most of the time. Have not tested with projects that caused problems.

Can you give us an indication of the cost of your system?