kyraia opened this issue on Jun 22, 2013 ยท 16 posts
madno2 posted Sun, 23 June 2013 at 7:53 AM
Hi ironsoul,
interesting you found the same conclusion. Seems to me all the benchmarks with CPU based renderes come to the same result: "Cores and GHz".
Like aRtBee said its different with the GPU engines of course (there it is about CUDA cores, CUDA version, CUDA speed and the graphic card's on board RAM (for current version of Octane, the Nvidia CTX 580 3GB version seems to be the right choice).
Regarding the "SSD gets damaged if you write on it" discussion.
Here is a review of the Samsung 840 Pro including a comparison to the standard 840.
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2013/05/samsung-840-pro-review-256gb/
The conclusion is, that if the system writes 10 GB of data each day (and the internal overhead extends that to a real 35 GB write to the storage cells) one can expect that:
If you like to read more about what it is all about; here is a good starting point:
http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html
Regarding the question of swap file. I run SSDs everywhere and put enough RAM for the purpose of the PC (notebook has 8 GB; Workstation has 32 GB). Swapfile is completely off, so no unwanted writes to the SSD. aRtBee mentioned defragmentation. Luckily the Windows7 SP1 installer identified my SSDs correctly and switched off defragmentation automatically. But it is a good idea to crosscheck.