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Drive advice
Hi, looking to optimise After Effects CS6 on a Mac, with occasional use of Premiere.
I currently have:
120GB Sandisk Extreme SSD – OS / programs
1TB Seagate Barracuda – Projects / mediaI’m looking to buy another drive or 2. Was thinking:
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB – disk cache / media cache / exports / preview
Or maybe another HDD for exports?
If anyone could advise a good setup and where various things should be located on these drives I’d really appreciate it.
Thanks.
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The most important thing for After Effects is to have your disk cache on the fastest drive over the fastest bus.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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Thanks Todd. Would I be right in thinking the fastest bus is a SATA III 6GBs port on my motherboard?
I think I’ll have to get that Samsung 840 Pro 256GB as I’ve discovered the 120GB Sandisk Extreme is poor for incompressible data, which I assume is what AE needs? Also, 120GB for OS, apps and disk cache is getting a bit tight.
My only debate is whether I need another HDD, perhaps for previews and exports?
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In the end I went for:
– 120GB Sandsik Extreme SSD: OS and apps
– 240GB Samsung 840 Pro: Disk cache, previews, media cache
– 1TB Seagate Barracuda: Project files
– 500GB Seagate Barracuda: ExportsDo you think that’s a good setup?
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