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Optimizing my 2014 MacBook for Premiere/After Effects
Hello Everyone.
So first here are some specs:
I have a MacBook that is from Mid 2014
With 16GB RAM and 512GB storage
I’ve been using two LaCie HDD drives(one as a scratch disk and one for holding files) when working on Premiere/After Effects projects but it’s abysmally slow. I don’t have the funds to immediately get a M2 Mac Mini Pro or Mac Studio yet so I’m wondering what SSD drives I should get to improve the speed on my current MacBook. I know it’s up there in age and I should have prepared for it but is there anyway I can use SSDs as a stopgap measure until I get enough money to upgrade? Any insight would be appreciated, thanks!
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You could get an SSD Drive and install the Mac OS within there if you have the means to do so. It will certainly help boot up your PC a lot quicker than with the HDD drives you have. 16GB is RAM is mainly the minimum requirement to even use Adobe Premiere Pro, thats how much RAM my PC has now and I have plans to upgrade to 32GB of RAM later this year. So in the meantime, you can certainly use an SSD but if you plan to put it internally, Apple products are notorious to being anti-consumer fix which basically means its super tedious to open an apple product without breaking it unless you have special tools and training on how to open it properly. There should be tutorials online to help you on that but the alternative is having an enclosure for an SSD Drive to plug it via USB and have the OS boot from your SSD. May also need to mirror the drive from your main internal drive using tools like disk manager equilavent in Mac to then copy the drive from your OS HDD to your external SSD. Hopefully you can find a work around for this soon to help you continue with your Premiere Pro work on a budget.
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