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So Tim you are saying that one can move the catalog only to the SSD for faster rendering. If it's faster than what I am already getting then damn I may have to give it a try. How do you have your folder on the SSD set up for your LR catalog? Do you have to move it via LR so the images won't get disconnected?

Al

tim wrote in post #13858195
Is your catalog on the SSD or on the RAID array? I'd put the catalog on the SSD for fast low latency access to the cache, and the images on RAID. Well, I wouldn't bother with RAID, one disk is fine for me.

tkbslc wrote in post #13862531
No, the adapter has risers to support the 3.5" drive centered in the drive opening. They work well. We used to use them to add zip drives to computers back when those were popular.

Ah - understood. I've got one of those nice little external Sandisk card readers with the rounded front.

Which board are you looking at? Does the case and/or MB offer external 3.0 usb? If so, I'd just get one of these.

sapearl wrote in post #13862019
One of the machine configurations I'm considering has USB 3.0 on the motherboard, and the case has enough extra 5.25" drive bays that I'm considering an internal card reader. Trouble is I have not seen too many available on the market other than this one:

http://www.amazon.com …B003OC9LZG/ref=​pd_vtp_e_2

Anybody have recommendations? Thanks.

Methodical wrote in post #13862972
Which board are you looking at? Does the case and/or MB offer external 3.0 usb? If so, I'd just get one of these.

Looking at the Asus P8Z68 VPRO/GEN3 which has 3.0 on the MB that can be connected to the two 3.0 ports on the front of the Corsair 500R.

Is the card reader faster than usb 3.0? Or you're looking for convenience?

sapearl wrote in post #13863046
Looking at the Asus P8Z68 VPRO/GEN3 which has 3.0 on the MB that can be connected to the two 3.0 ports on the front of the Corsair 500R.

i have purchased 2 of the cheapies on newegg.. and both are now dead.. first one i bought and it worked for a bit.. then stopped.. bought another then it died.. hence the bought 2... i not sure if the cheap ones are all that good... so maybe pony up for a nice one...
maybe i wore out the SD slot cuz the usb still works on them...

Methodical wrote in post #13863182
Is the card reader faster than usb 3.0? Or you're looking for convenience?

I have only seen one USB 3.0 Card Reader advertised so far - the plan would be to connect that to USB 3.0 pin out on the Asus motherboard. Speed would match then (at least according to the paperworl )

sapearl wrote in post #13862019
One of the machine configurations I'm considering has USB 3.0 on the motherboard, and the case has enough extra 5.25" drive bays that I'm considering an internal card reader. Trouble is I have not seen too many available on the market other than this one:

http://www.amazon.com …B003OC9LZG/ref=​pd_vtp_e_2

Anybody have recommendations? Thanks.

Don't consider anything without USB 3 on the motherboard. There are a couple of brands of USB 3 card reader, Lexar seems good.

TeleFragger wrote in post #13862508
but does wonders on vmware hypervisor 5!!!!

Yeah lots of RAM is handy if you're running multiple VMs and OS's, but photographers don't tend to do that. I had a machine with 32GB of RAM once, running 5 OS's, each running its own server software.

Methodical wrote in post #13862939
So Tim you are saying that one can move the catalog only to the SSD for faster rendering. If it's faster than what I am already getting then damn I may have to give it a try. How do you have your folder on the SSD set up for your LR catalog? Do you have to move it via LR so the images won't get disconnected?

Al

Yes. The folder on the SSD is just a regular folder, just copy it there then open it in LR. I don't know if LR can move a catalog itself.

TeleFragger wrote in post #13862508
but does wonders on vmware hypervisor 5!!!!

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Hey, I run that at work. Only I have 112 Cores and 640GB of RAM.

This is usb 3.0 card reader I use. Since you have two usb 3.0 ports on the front this would be a good alternative. Do you need or even use all those other card slots? Just an FYI. You need to download the asmedia 3.0 software for the front and rear usb 3.0 ports to work.

sapearl wrote in post #13863550
I have only seen one USB 3.0 Card Reader advertised so far - the plan would be to connect that to USB 3.0 pin out on the Asus motherboard. Speed would match then (at least according to the paperworl )

sapearl wrote in post #13863046
Looking at the Asus P8Z68 VPRO/GEN3 which has 3.0 on the MB that can be connected to the two 3.0 ports on the front of the Corsair 500R.

This is the board I went with. Be warned that it DOES have 4x SATA III connectors, but two are on one controller, and two are on another. I think I mentioned this in the first post.

Here it the card reader I was looking at getting:

http://www.newegg.com …aspx?Item=N82E1​6820176023

And it's out of stock - so I guess you all beat me to it

I just picked up a new power supply today - the other one was too noisy. This computer is completely silent (pretty much) and I'm quite happy with it

I also swapped out my OCZ SSD for a Crucial m4 unit (i've been reading that the OCZ ones are more failure-prone). I used a program called HD Clone to copy the data over USB 3.0 to my new drive... Win7 Ultimate, TONS of apps ... 37 GBs of data moved over in three minutes