Hi guys,
As I wrote in some previous topic, I’m leaving Mac for an all new Davinci-dedicated PC (threadripper-pro + rtx3090, that would be the idea).
At first I thought at Windows because it’s (somehow) easy to use, there are a bunch of utilities for everything, drivers are available for everything, and also because I usually integrate my Davinci workflow with Photoshop and Topaz apps.
But lately I started to worry about virus/malware stuff, and about keeping clean/performative my OS, etc. It’s a lot of time daily spent on a fragile system...
So, why not Linux?
Linux is largely obscure for me at the moment, but it seems even faster than Windows, and no-virus (more or less).
Anyway, in my case, Linux would imply a more complicated setting than Windows.
Here some questions:
1. Which Linux? Blackmagic officially supports only CentOS Linux, but it will die on 2024. There are also CentOS Stream and Fedora Workstation (as RedHat based options). So, which distro do you recommend (and why)?
2. In order to run Photoshop and Topaz Video Enhance AI, I should use a Win virtual-machine with hardware acceleration (Qemu + KVM is a good option?) but since the size of the video files in/out Topaz VE AI, I think I would need a secondary NTFS-formatted SSD (dedicated to the Win VM). Do you think this Linux+WindowsVM system could be a good workflow (fast enough for Topaz?) or a Windows-only system would improve somehow the performance?
3. I have an internal HighPoint 4x NMVe drives PCIe RAID0 that I use as scratch/files disk. Should I format it in EXT4?
4. I have a couple of 8-bays thunderbolt-2 external RAID6 units (48TB each) by G-Speed (A Shuttle XL and a Studio XL). They currently are in HFS+ (and they are full of large RAW video files that I DON’T want to loose!) What should I do? I could leave the two tb2 RAIDs in HFS+ and read/write them installing hfsplus in Linux (is it a SAFE option, or could I corrupt something?) Second option: I could transfer all my files on a new RAID (thunderbolt again?) after having formatted it in… possibly OpenZFS? I’ve read wonderful things about ZFS for keeping my files SAFE (it’s my absolute priority!) but, under Linux, is OpenZFS actually the most reliable options for a thunderbolt RAID?
Thanks in advance for Your precious advice.
As I wrote in some previous topic, I’m leaving Mac for an all new Davinci-dedicated PC (threadripper-pro + rtx3090, that would be the idea).
At first I thought at Windows because it’s (somehow) easy to use, there are a bunch of utilities for everything, drivers are available for everything, and also because I usually integrate my Davinci workflow with Photoshop and Topaz apps.
But lately I started to worry about virus/malware stuff, and about keeping clean/performative my OS, etc. It’s a lot of time daily spent on a fragile system...
So, why not Linux?
Linux is largely obscure for me at the moment, but it seems even faster than Windows, and no-virus (more or less).
Anyway, in my case, Linux would imply a more complicated setting than Windows.
Here some questions:
1. Which Linux? Blackmagic officially supports only CentOS Linux, but it will die on 2024. There are also CentOS Stream and Fedora Workstation (as RedHat based options). So, which distro do you recommend (and why)?
2. In order to run Photoshop and Topaz Video Enhance AI, I should use a Win virtual-machine with hardware acceleration (Qemu + KVM is a good option?) but since the size of the video files in/out Topaz VE AI, I think I would need a secondary NTFS-formatted SSD (dedicated to the Win VM). Do you think this Linux+WindowsVM system could be a good workflow (fast enough for Topaz?) or a Windows-only system would improve somehow the performance?
3. I have an internal HighPoint 4x NMVe drives PCIe RAID0 that I use as scratch/files disk. Should I format it in EXT4?
4. I have a couple of 8-bays thunderbolt-2 external RAID6 units (48TB each) by G-Speed (A Shuttle XL and a Studio XL). They currently are in HFS+ (and they are full of large RAW video files that I DON’T want to loose!) What should I do? I could leave the two tb2 RAIDs in HFS+ and read/write them installing hfsplus in Linux (is it a SAFE option, or could I corrupt something?) Second option: I could transfer all my files on a new RAID (thunderbolt again?) after having formatted it in… possibly OpenZFS? I’ve read wonderful things about ZFS for keeping my files SAFE (it’s my absolute priority!) but, under Linux, is OpenZFS actually the most reliable options for a thunderbolt RAID?
Thanks in advance for Your precious advice.