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Thanks Zhuravlik, I understand and appreciate your suggestions...Some notes below...
Zhuravlik wrote:
I'd go away from Mac and just do custom Windows PC. This way you are not locked into hardware limitations and can get the max speed available.
Great suggestion and this is exactly what I would do (and have done in my younger days) if I had the time. I am basically substituting stable setup for my time which is extremely valuable at this point in time in my life.
For example, NMVe drives on PCIE 5.0 have 14000MB/s limit, plus you can put them into RAID0, making it superfast. Although NMVe Gen 5 just started to appear and best speed right now is only 10000 MB/s, but it's already much better than anything you can get from any Mac.
Yes, I know this extremely well and very intimately. I have these drives running in my lab (E1.S and U.2) at these speeds with my own firmware. So, yes true, but not doable yet commercially.
I personally have somewhat outdated system - Threadripper 3990X (overclocked) for CPU, two NMVe Gen 4 in RAID0 as a system drive (tops at ~13000 MB/s), four NMVe Gen 4 in RAID0 as a working + cache drive (tops at ~22000 MB/s), plus regular SSDs (8Tb each) for the backup. For Photoshop, Luminar and Topaz plugins speedup I use three RTX 3090 videocards, and that makes even GFX100s files processing a breeze.
Reason for RAID0 is very simple - it gives maximum possible speed. If system drive fails, it's just a few mins to restore the system; if work drive fails, it's even less time, as I have a backup on the SSD. So overall you'd save on number of drives as you need a backup anyway. But so far it was two years, and nothing failed yet.
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Yes, understood, but again too much work for my taste. That said, I don't think the SSDs (especially PRO versions of m.2 ones with good ventilation) are not an issue. I will probably build an 8TB RAID10 array any way.
Of course, full tower PC is not nearly as elegant as any Mac, but if you choose speed versus aesthetics then "this is the way" .
Yes, true and this is not a primary concern...
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