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In Premier CC, will using a separate Scratch Disk really speed things up?
Hi,
Sorry if this has been answered, but after poking around, I’m still not clear.
I have a new Windows 7 Pro machine with 16 gigs of memory and a SSD for a boot disk. Nothing but Adobe CC Suite on it.
I have four separate internal SATA 7200 rpm drives in the system.
I’ve edited several HD videos from 3 to 13 minutes long and all is well, although after I have transitions and effects in the project, my previews are not as smooth as I’d like. I have set the playback resolution to 1/4, and that helps.
My question is, will I benefit from setting up a Scratch disk? If so, for what? Cache files, preview files?
I just want to find out the best way to have a speedier system.
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7 Replies
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setup some sort of RAID array and set all projects/scratches on it.
you will see drastic performance improvement.
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Here’s a good guide:
https://www.video2brain.com/en/lessons/optimizing-hard-disks
Peter Garaway
Adobe
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Hey, thanks so much, everyone.
OK, I think I’m going to take my two 7200 rpm disks and use them as a RAID 0.
I guess I need an enclosure and if anyone has a recommendation for a RAID card (I’d need a PCI express card for Win 7 Pro) that would be great. I’ve seen ones in the $300.00 range both with 512 megs and 1 Gig of memory, I “assume” the 1 Gig of memory card would make things faster?).
My only questions to this setup are below:
A SSD is my boot drive and that’s were Adobe CC is, and I have four other drives in my system now. I’m guessing that I just store all of my project and project files on the actual RAID drive and edit there? If so, do I then backup to one of the 4 drives I have installed aready?
Also, where would be the best place to store the Cache files and should I then render to a separate drive to “from ” the RAID drives?
Am I missing anything that would also help speed things up?
Thanks.
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I was advised today to either:
Buy a RAID card, pciExpress and use two of my internal Hard Drives
Buy a Gtech enclosure with two drives and use the USB 3.0 connection
Use the RAID controller on my Asus Etreme Maximus high end motherboard.
Any opinions would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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Raid your 4 internals, that will speed it up greatly. No card needed.
Chris
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I got a good deal on an 120Gb SSD and I point the Cache and Cache Database on it…
And it made a big difference here…
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Thanks again, everyone.
Yes, my Media Cache is now on the system drive, that’s a ssd.
And I’d like to RAID my 4 internal drives on my Asus Maximus IV Extreme Z motherboard (which was almost $400.), but even after spending all of that money, the onboard RAID never worked for me during setup, even with flashing the bios and doing everything I was told. That’s why I was looking at the card.
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