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Most Optimal Location For Caching?
I have two SSD drives I use on my computer. One is for the Windows OS (where my Adobe programs are installed to) and the other is my where I keep my project files (and only work from this drive). I always set all my Adobe cache file locations to the same folder on my SSD drive that has my OS/Adobe apps.
I’m wondering if I’d have better performance if I moved the cache file folder to the other SSD, where my apps are not located? However, that would put in on the same drive as my project files (which I’ve read you don’t want to do).
So which is a better location, the OS drive or the projects drive (without my OS or apps)? I also have other internal SATA drives I could use, if that’s a better option.
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From my experience in saving project files with Adobe Photoshop, Vegas PRO and a couple of times in Adobe After Effects, I always have my apps installed on my main drive and every drives outside of the main SSD/HDD drives of your Windows OS are extra drives you can use for partitioning and storage. So as long as you have the app in Windows in general, it does not matter which drives you store it at as long as you have access to it.
If you have a lot less storage on your main drive than your 2nd SSD drive, its much better to store it on your 2nd drive because if you have too many projects on your Windows OS drives, it can slow down the operating system over time. For me I store my projects in a Cloud storage but it stores on my main drive so it really all depends on the storage capacity on each.
Here is also a video I found that can explain more on this situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZxqAlDwSDI
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A lot of the old conventional wisdom around how to use the cache was etched in our minds when all our drives were spinning rust. It doesn’t apply anymore.
With After Effects in particular, the cache works best when the cache works fast.
Put your cache on your fastest drive, irrespective of where the OS, program, and project file. For example, if you have your OS on a very fast NVMe drive, and your project is on a SATA SSD, use the NVMe.
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That’s good to know, as I do like the location where it is currently situated on my current OS SSD drive. And since both SSD drives are the same speed, I’ll leave it where it is. Thanks
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