aokaf wrote:If money is no issue, then get 32gb of ram, get two SSD'sm one for the OS/APPs and one for scratch/temp disk get 2x 2TB disk WD RE4 / for your data storage in a soft RAID-1
thanks man!
this is what i'm looking for
32 GB ram 1000 $
2 SSD 1000 $
one virtual tour should cover the price
and the GPU is like you say (not useful) ! waw! thanks man, I would have fallen for that!
UK Pano wrote:Thanks both - both interesting inputs which I have taken onboard, especially your formula. Duly copied and printed off with all my other panorama notes!
Completely off topic but picking your brains, when rendering from APG for then importing into PTP for creating a tour, what is best in the following?
Would you render out of APG at the maximum resolution of the stitched panorama or would you render at a reduced size of 6000x3000 for example?
Cheers
HansKeesom wrote:aokaf wrote:32 GB ram 1000 $
2 SSD 1000 $
one virtual tour should cover the price
hmmmm well paid tours, Can I work for you :-) I can process everything for you at lower rates :-)
KreAture wrote:When selling a $500,000+ house it will probably pay to use a pano-tour at $1000-2000 as it will attract a lot more bidders.
tived wrote:Hi Guys,
Sorry for my absense, I can see we are having a few issues again on this topic which have been covered in length here.
In an ideal world where we have no limitations in $$$, we can design systems that will eliminate bottlenecks in the pano production. From this we deduct a lessor system which fits within our available funds.
Look at the data travelling through your system, as it has to move from the different stages, moving data to and from its host drive set takes longer then moving data from host drive set to the next drive set. With this idea in mind, you have to build a system with multiple hard drives or drive sets (RAID). The more we can separate each task the faster we can make the system.
To SSD or not to SSD? is only a question of money, as the SSD's in particular the 3rd Gen is very very fast, so if you can afford SSD's then go for it.
This applies to most OS's, Mac/PC and *nix
Have your OS/Applications on one set of disks - eg. The Bootdisk, i currently use two SSD's (2nd Gen) in RAID-0 i would prefer to have 4 SSD's for this or more simpli for the speed, these can be very small disks but they should atleast sum up to 120GB, or big enough to store your OS and your apps with spare space left.
There are guys who build systems for database handling and use 8 or more SSD disks and they are able to get speed of up or greater the 2GB/sec which is very fast :-) they then also you several sets like this for their various tasks, but they make sure that all sets equally fast and this is an important thing, as the system is only as fast as its slowest link.
Page-file, again this is something that both windows and Mac OS uses, but have different names for it, again here you need to accommodate for this, as no matter how much ram you have you will always need this temp-swap space for your OS. I here use 3 SSD's 2nd Gen in RAID-0, again to optimise speed, ideally it should be made up of many more disks but not enough $$$$
Temp/Scratch disk: the same as with the page-file, you can combine these to save some $$$$, but if it is possible then separate in a RAID-0 set, and again the more drives the faster it is.
Finally we came to the storage of the data, here if you have the $$$ you could use SSD's but in all honesty i would use large HDD in a stripe and mirror RAID combination.... this is not so that you do not have to back up your data because you have to do this regardless - not that I always practice what I preech, but you really should!
Now we are talking of the ideal situation here, where you make large pano's and hopefully are also making some money from it. The above WILL give you the best data flow!
All the best
Henrik
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