tbenefi33 Posted January 18, 2011 Posted January 18, 2011 Hello just curious would putting your work projects on a external hard drive make it run a little a better or just up grade the pc ? Quote
Darkwing Posted January 18, 2011 Posted January 18, 2011 I've personally found no noticeable difference to working from an external drive, so I'd go with upgrade the PC Quote
fae_alba Posted January 18, 2011 Posted January 18, 2011 External drives are slow. They work well as a backup drive to archive work, but I wouldn't use them for work in progress. Quote
Fuchur Posted January 18, 2011 Posted January 18, 2011 External drives are slow. They work well as a backup drive to archive work, but I wouldn't use them for work in progress. ... At least as long as you are using usb2.0 and not eSata or Usb 3.0 with a faster 3.5" drive. They can be faster than low or medium level harddrives in the computer... A fast one in the computer is not beatable so.. The only advantage you may gain is more space for windos itself which can be faster if we are talking about under 1gb of free space on the systemdrive... *Fuchur* Quote
tbenefi33 Posted January 18, 2011 Author Posted January 18, 2011 External drives are slow. They work well as a backup drive to archive work, but I wouldn't use them for work in progress. ... At least as lomg as you are using usb2.0 and not eSata or Usb 3.0 with a faster 3.5" drive. They can be faster than low or medium level harddrives in the computer... A fast one in the computer is not beatable so.. The only diffetence you may gaun is more space for windos itself which can be faster if we are talking about under 1gb of free space on the systemdrive... *Fuchur* Yes I'm running a laptop with intel 4 cpu , 3.06 ghz and 1GB of Ram Quote
HomeSlice Posted January 19, 2011 Posted January 19, 2011 External drives are slow. They work well as a backup drive to archive work, but I wouldn't use them for work in progress. ... At least as lomg as you are using usb2.0 and not eSata or Usb 3.0 with a faster 3.5" drive. They can be faster than low or medium level harddrives in the computer... A fast one in the computer is not beatable so.. The only diffetence you may gaun is more space for windos itself which can be faster if we are talking about under 1gb of free space on the systemdrive... *Fuchur* Yes I'm running a laptop with intel 4 cpu , 3.06 ghz and 1GB of Ram Fuchur is not talking about 1GB of RAM, he is talking about 1GB of Free Space on the Hard Drive that Windows is installed on. Quote
tbenefi33 Posted January 21, 2011 Author Posted January 21, 2011 oh ok my bad I have a 80gb hard drive with 40gb free space just looked it up on the c drive in the properties. I think that right one. Quote
Fuchur Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 oh ok my bad I have a 80gb hard drive with 40gb free space just looked it up on the c drive in the properties. I think that right one. Thank I wouldn't say that you can gain anything from it other than the backup. I would however consider to work on an external drive. Like that you can better create backups and more important: If your Windows-Installation gets corrupt you dont have any problems to format it. I would however consider to make a backup once a month (or something like that) of the external harddrive. See you *Fuchur Quote
tbenefi33 Posted January 21, 2011 Author Posted January 21, 2011 Thank you Fuchur appreciate the info. Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted January 21, 2011 Hash Fellow Posted January 21, 2011 Aside from bitmap textures I don't think A:M is terribly disk intensive once the project is loaded. A:M models and animation data are fairly economical by today's standards and I think everything is mostly handled in RAM while A:M is running. A long image sequence might be an exception. But backing up your work regularly won't hurt you. Quote
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