• Adobe After Effects

  Put AE cache or Windows System on M.2 Drive?

  Posted by Darryn Rogers on August 16, 2019 at 12:44 am

  Hello
  I am putting together a new machine for AE and C4D with Redshift. For storage the machine will have:

  1 x Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 NVMe 1TB SSD
  2 x Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSD SATA3

  I am wondering what the best utilization of the M.2 drive would be. Should I put the system on there for overall system performance? Or would it be better to use the M.2 for the AE Cache drive? My motherboard also has 2 x U.2 ports. Should I just invest in one of these drives?… bearing in mind my bank account is already looking fairly depleted.

  Here’s the full system specs:
  Intel Core i9 9920X 12 Core LGA 2066 3.50GHz Unlocked Processor
  Asus WS X299 SAGE SSI CEB LGA2066 Motherboard
  Corsair Vengeance RAM 64GB
  1 x Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 NVMe 1TB SSD
  2 x Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSD SATA
  3 x ASUS Turbo GeForce RTX 2080 Evo, 8GB

  Darryn Rogers replied 6 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Walter Soyka

  August 16, 2019 at 2:18 pm

  I’d definitely put the system on the M.2 drive. If you have the space, you could put the cache there, too.

  Walter Soyka
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  Darryn Rogers

  August 16, 2019 at 9:14 pm

  Thanks Walter.
  My gut said the system should go on the M.2 so it’s nice to have that confirmed.

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