[James Paulley]

Thanks Dave. My projects are not super long, so it’s not so much size I need, just as much speed as I can get out of that motherboard.

[James Paulley]

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: Exports

Do you think that’s a good setup?

[James Paulley]

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?