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I have a 40 lanes CPU, right now I'm only using three 4x pci-e adapters and one of the 970 is on the motherboard, my board support 4x m.2, it only has one slot for m.2 drive but that's enough to run the 4 drives setup, I had two 16x cards from amfeltec but I returned them, is really along story but I do not recommend that company at all, I just had a horrible experience dealing with them, I had 8 Samsung 960 EVO running 4 on each card and went all the way up to 18,000 but the Evo's drop speed very fast even if you use a single EVO, so it wasn't a raid problem, EVO's are just build like that, that's why I decided to go back to the PRO's and I changed my board for one that has at least one onboard 4X M.2 slot, my previous board has only one but at 2X that's why I was forced to buy an expensive card just to have the four drives, but now my system is back on business the way I like it, anyway thanks, just waiting for Mojave, just love the new dark theme and the features.
yes I have a Phantom 4 Pro drone and I do videos in 4K so I do editing and rendering AKA encoding
That's really cool. Are you using VROC?
I'm waiting for PRO prices to fall so I can get multiple for RAID0 like you. I work in Adobe a lot (all apps) and do get heavy 6+k Red and other kinds, quick SSDs really help for cutting/exporting.
Definitely the Drone files are unbearable (I think it's just the way their encoder is), I usually convert those MP4's to ProRes HQ via Media Encoder before using.
And Mojave dark mode is good for creative professionals, I'm looking forward. I'll probably jump on it by 10.14.2. High Sierra 10.13 was really buggy for me, I held off for a while until High Sierra was around 10.13.1/2
Since you know a lot about storage, I want to get an external raid, maybe a SAS raid....any good SAS cards for macOS that work OOB? Or should I go with TB3 prebuilts? (They are kind of pricey)...my X299 board has onboard TB3 and I still haven't tested it yet.