Question PCIe M.2 Adapter Board in an X99 System ?

[dcairns]

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. Now I need to review how video in Davinci Resolve is doing. At least I have no urgent need to get faster disk performance for daily work.

Maxxify - I have 96GB of DDR4 RAM. (Corsair Vengeance 2500mhz) Much more than I need, yet I still have the urge to fill it out to 128GB just... because...

One thought I have had, is a RAM Disk (are they still a thing?) I wonder if anyone makes software for a RAM Disk that slowly will duplicate to a non-volatile disk in the background. I will have to look into that.

 

[Maxxify]

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. Now I need to review how video in Davinci Resolve is doing. At least I have no urgent need to get faster disk performance for daily work.

Maxxify - I have 96GB of DDR4 RAM. (Corsair Vengeance 2500mhz) Much more than I need, yet I still have the urge to fill it out to 128GB just... because...

One thought I have had, is a RAM Disk (are they still a thing?) I wonder if anyone makes software for a RAM Disk that slowly will duplicate to a non-volatile disk in the background. I will have to look into that.

A PSD will necessarily be slower to save. It's saving layers, steps, etc. There's certainly an advantage to retaining a base file of that format, but other formats are faster depending on where it is in the workflow. This is pretty much true of all content creation software. And, yes, RAM disks are still a thing, but as they are volatile they are only useful for niche things. Even something like PrimoCache could be more controllable and effective, but generally the OS does a good job of managing memory. (you should definitely have an uninterruptible power supply/UPS anyway)

 

[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 2GB level (lots of more complex stuff with more layers, can add up fast). Of course one way to get around all this is to Merge all layers before saving, but I do like to keep my layers, in case I need to make changes. But this discussion is starting to drift off topic. In summary, Adobe is just being stupid about something and using TIFF gets things back on track

I did install the $18 Sabrent M.2 SSD PCIE Card today with an old Samsung 950 Pro 512 GB SSD that I had laying around. I ran some benchmarks and it came up pretty close to the motherboard M.2 slot with a SK hynix Gold P31 1TB PCIe NVMe Gen3 M.2 SSD in it. Not surprising since the card is hooking into the system much the same way and the Samsung is an older SSD than the SK hynix is

CrystalDisk Mark 8.0.5 x64 had this to say:

1850/1787
1638/1635
331/214
67/134

1708/1578
1566/1533
401/315
51/130