• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Yet Another Hard Drive Setup Question

  Posted by Jack Browsky on January 18, 2015 at 7:45 pm

  Please forgive me if this is already answered, I tried the search function but couldn’t find the answer.

  I am about to assemble a computer the the following hard drives and components, and want to optimize things for video editing in Premiere. I would like suggestions as to which drive I should install the OS (windows 8.1) and programs. In terms of cache and rendering, I understand those are easier to change later, but I want to get the OS and programs right the first time. M.2 SSD drives are a fairly new thing, I am not sure what to use it for. I am open to adding more drives in the future. Thanks!

  250 GB Samsung xp941 SSD m.2 drive (m.2 should be the fastest drive)
  500 GB Samsung 850 Pro SSD SATA
  3 TB 7200 RPM Seagate internal
  5 TB 5400 RPM Seagate external
  Motherboard ASUS x99-E WS
  CPU i7-5960X
  RAM 32 GB DDR4

  Thanks,

  JB

  Richard Herd replied 11 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
• 3 Replies

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  Tero Ahlfors

  January 19, 2015 at 5:37 am

  If you can keep your OS disk clean then the 250 gig should do fine.
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  Jack Browsky

  January 20, 2015 at 5:58 am

  Thanks. I guess what I had in mind is am I better saving the apparently much faster m.2 drive for something else, or should I put the OS on it (thinking in terms of performance optimization)? Thanks,

  JB
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  Richard Herd

  January 22, 2015 at 7:43 pm

  Go to preferences > Media > Media Cache Database and set that fast drive as the Location, this will speed up renders quite a bit.

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