Recent content by dcairns

Actually, I am saving as a 16 bit layered TIFF. So I can re-open in PS again and have my layers available. The layered TIFF comes out a bit bigger as well 575k vs the PSD at 431k. I do know that at some point, photoshop forces you to save larger stuff as a PSB, but I think that is around the...

Well, I seem to have stumbled my way into fixing the basic problem with slow file saves from photoshop. Seems when you open a file from Lightroom to Photoshop, my LR preferences were set to save the file as PSD (seems a logical choice), but changing to TIFF turned a 29 second save to 1 second...

Well, considering the amount of data I sling around as I work, I would think there should be some noticeable benefit. But I should learn more first. I would like to get a better handle on bifurcation, if only to learn. Old dogs can still learn, I was upgrading hard drives back when 30MB (yeah...

I was doing some additional searching and slow photoshop file writing seems to be a common complaint in recent years. I already had most of the recommended settings to avoid the issue (lots of RAM allocated for PS, large cache level, etc) and compared to others complaining of their write times...

Yes, I have been looking at that RIITOP Dual NVMe PCIe Adapter you linked earlier. That is a lot more affordable than the SSD7104/SSD7105 option. And perhaps fits my situation better at this point. Looking over those RAID links I can see the mixed results of RAID 0 and it got me to do a test...

Perhaps I misunderstood the recommendation for the SSD7104/SSD7105 add in cards. I thought their performance boost was due to the RAID 0 striping.

Since I overspent on the 4TB M.2 SSD, for the moment I am going to try the single M.2 SSD on the single adapter card. The card was cheap enough ($18). However given the cost of adding more three more matching 4TB M.2 SSD's, I may just do a two M.2 SSD card. That would keep the add in card...

Well, those HighPoint 7104 or 7105 are a bit pricey for now. So I just punted and got a single SABRENT NVMe M.2 SSD to PCIe X16/X8/X4 Card for $18. I can defer the idea of a multi SSD card for later when I can afford more M.2 SSDs. This will out perform the existing 2TB SATA SSD that I use at...

Well, this is the kind of info I needed before getting impatient and pressing the "Buy" button :LOL:. I was able to cancel the order for the Asus add in card. After reading your post and some more "learning", I realized the Asus card was all about RAID 0 (striping) and there is no mention of...

Well, I went ahead and got the ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe 3.0 X4 Expansion Card V2 and a SAMSUNG 990 PRO SSD 4TB PCIe 4.0 M.2. So I will just find out on my own. I am pretty sure it will work just fine. Perhaps I overspent on the M.2 drive, but 4.0 will give it some future life.

So I want to add some more fast M.2 drives on my X99 system and the PCIE Adapter boards seem the obvious route. My board supports one M.2 drive, but I would like to be able to add more. So I have poked around, reading/watching stuff on how this works, and looks like it would be fine on my...