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<blockquote data-quote="mawyatt" data-source="post: 1618049" data-attributes="member: 329404"><p>I have a similar workflow with the Nikon D800 (35MP). Often I'll need to stack 300~400 separate images, and I'm heading towards 500! This takes lots of computer power, memory and a fast HD. Both my MBPr and nMB have 1TB SSD drives and I would never consider a standard HD as a boot, application and scratch workspace HD. I do store the images to a Thunderbolt RAID (Dual 7200rpm Seagate HD), but do all the editing in the SSD.</p><p></p><p>The nMB uses 4 PCIe lanes for the SSD and that's why it's so fast (~1000Mb/s), the MBPr I have is the early version that uses eSATA interface and is ~450Mb/s. The newer MBPr and iMac use 2 lane PCIe SSD and achieve ~750Mb/s I believe. So I think it's worth looking into the SSD for your workload. </p><p></p><p>I have no experience with FUSION drives, but would like to try one to see how well they work in real life.</p><p></p><p>Hope this helps,</p><p></p><p>Mike</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mawyatt, post: 1618049, member: 329404"] I have a similar workflow with the Nikon D800 (35MP). Often I'll need to stack 300~400 separate images, and I'm heading towards 500! This takes lots of computer power, memory and a fast HD. Both my MBPr and nMB have 1TB SSD drives and I would never consider a standard HD as a boot, application and scratch workspace HD. I do store the images to a Thunderbolt RAID (Dual 7200rpm Seagate HD), but do all the editing in the SSD. The nMB uses 4 PCIe lanes for the SSD and that's why it's so fast (~1000Mb/s), the MBPr I have is the early version that uses eSATA interface and is ~450Mb/s. The newer MBPr and iMac use 2 lane PCIe SSD and achieve ~750Mb/s I believe. So I think it's worth looking into the SSD for your workload. I have no experience with FUSION drives, but would like to try one to see how well they work in real life. Hope this helps, Mike [/QUOTE]
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