New Mac Pro 2019 headed my way...

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Adam Langdon

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New Mac Pro 2019 headed my way...

PostTue Jun 22, 2021 8:31 pm

I exclusively work in Resolve, for editing and coloring.
I've been using it solely for about 4 years.

I've recently been doing a lot more coloring work and i bought a M1 Mac Mini, thinking it would suffice. But as i was adding NR and two FX, it was a slow crawl of a playback. I think i was asking the M1 to do a bit too much.

Anyway, I'm returning the M1 and purchased a second-hand Mac Pro 2019. As much as i want to A/B them, I won't have the time, but i already have some upgrades inbound.
End Specs would be:
24-Core CPU
96GB RAM
1TB + 4TB (in RAID 0) SSD drives
Two Radeon W5700X MPX Modules

I'm hoping this will last me at least 5-7 years, as I'm really getting steam and need the turnaround times to be minimum.
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New Mac Pro 2019 headed my way...

PostTue Jun 22, 2021 11:01 pm

Adam Langdon wrote:I exclusively work in Resolve, for editing and coloring.
I've been using it solely for about 4 years.

I've recently been doing a lot more coloring work and i bought a M1 Mac Mini, thinking it would suffice. But as i was adding NR and two FX, it was a slow crawl of a playback. I think i was asking the M1 to do a bit too much.

Anyway, I'm returning the M1 and purchased a second-hand Mac Pro 2019. As much as i want to A/B them, I won't have the time, but i already have some upgrades inbound.
End Specs would be:
24-Core CPU
96GB RAM
1TB + 4TB (in RAID 0) SSD drives
Two Radeon W5700X MPX Modules

I'm hoping this will last me at least 5-7 years, as I'm really getting steam and need the turnaround times to be minimum.
Doesn’t having a 1TB drive and a 4TB drive in raid 0 limit 5 total TB to 1? Or do you have 1, 4+4? Or is it possible to combine drives of unequal sizes in RAID 0?


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Re: New Mac Pro 2019 headed my way...

PostTue Jun 22, 2021 11:08 pm

RAID0 needs identical drives.
No, an iGPU is not enough, and you can't use HEVC 10 bit 4:2:2 in the free version.

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Re: New Mac Pro 2019 headed my way...

PostTue Jun 22, 2021 11:11 pm

I know how RAID works, I just meant the second, 4TB SSD is in RAID.
No worries
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Re: New Mac Pro 2019 headed my way...

PostWed Jun 23, 2021 12:19 am

We have the "mere" 16-core 2019 Mac Pro and it's been a champ. We have a whole bunch of external RAIDs as source drives, but we try to put our current project(s) on a G-Tech Shuttle SSD RAID, which will do 2000MB/s pretty easily. Also very quiet and has very little heat.

We find we still have to cache certain processor-intensive operations (like Neat Video and heavy OFX), but aside from that it's been fairly peppy.
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Re: New Mac Pro 2019 headed my way...

PostWed Jun 23, 2021 7:46 pm

Adam Langdon wrote:I know how RAID works, I just meant the second, 4TB SSD is in RAID.
No worries
Was just making sure *I* know how raid works. ;-)


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Re: New Mac Pro 2019 headed my way...

PostThu Jun 24, 2021 6:33 pm

Bought one last year and have been extremely happy with it so far. But we focus primarily on audio, for which it's overkill, but hopefully will last for many years.

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