Will SSD help load times for meshes?

[adrencg]

Sounds like a dumb question, but I'm not sure how much the memory on the video card is responsible for the XSI exporter to save mesh and load in Octane. I'm doing a clay render animation, which renders very fast, but the load times are 10 times longer.

Will getting a fast ssd for loading and unloading OBJ's help?

[mib2berlin]

Hi, no, not in my system. I have a corsair ssd 170/100 rw not the fastest today.
I try also a ramdisk but i don't have much memory, so i leave for now. I think you should try this.

Cheers mib

[kivig]

Ram disk did almost nothing and it's noticeably faster than ssd.

[adrencg]

So we're stuck with long read\write times in Octane, regardless of the hardware?

[acc24ex]

So we're stuck with long read\write times in Octane, regardless of the hardware?

I think the write depends on speed of you PCIX bus, and load depends on probably the cpu speed and memory speed and whether you use 32 or 64 bit.. 64 is faster I mean you can see the difference if you load a 1 gb file or 5 mb file, but it is probably most to the octane calculating and loading data into the GPU
Maybe we should try a benchmark on that, which system loads a benchmark file fastest. My pci express bus says I'm using 16x..
Octane should make a benchmark application like cinebench did..

[adrencg]

So we're stuck with long read\write times in Octane, regardless of the hardware?

I think the write depends on speed of you PCIX bus, and load depends on probably the cpu speed and memory speed and whether you use 32 or 64 bit.. 64 is faster I mean you can see the difference if you load a 1 gb file or 5 mb file, but it is probably most to the octane calculating and loading data into the GPU
Maybe we should try a benchmark on that, which system loads a benchmark file fastest. My pci express bus says I'm using 16x..
Octane should make a benchmark application like cinebench did..

I have an i7980x at 4.2ghz and seagate barracuda at 6.0gb/s (gets around 100mb per sec), with windows 7 64bit. I don't think my system is slow by any stretch.

Hopefully some attention is paid to this. It's frustrating to see a frame render in a few seconds, but take 1 minute to load.