Better to split OS and Photo programs over 2x 400GB intel 750 PCIe or put everything on one 750.

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I was very impressed with the performance of booting from the Intel 750, and running Photoshop on the same disc.

My initial idea was just keep a couple of current editing jobs on this disc and then back them off to 2 samsung 850 Evos ( so I have a sort of home made mirrored drive .... i dont really understand RAID1 etc.
Once the job is completed I would archive the job to a 4 TB WD Blue [previous a Green drive], which is backup to 2x 2TB WD USB passport drives and put in a fireproof safe.

Then I wondered would it be faster if I bought another Intel 750 and split the OS and Office on one 750 [ note I never run photo editing and Office at the same time], and put Photoshop and Canon DPP4, and Portraiture [a Photoshop plugin] on the second disc, and use that for the current 2 or 3 editing jobs.

My thoughts were then the 2 Intel's are pretty empty and should work faster??
Or will I find that Photoshop "calls" ?? the OS a lot ..... .? And would it be slower?

Obviously my interim storage on Samsung Evos stays As I have them already,likewise the WDs are in place.

Spliting the OS and Editing Programs has a maintenace advantage, in that, were I ever to have a problem; it would take 5 mins to reload either the OS or Photo editing software.

Any advice or thoughts on this?
 
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OS and applications on one drive, data on other drives.

Putting your photo applications on a different drive neither hurts nor helps performance.
And if you need to reinstall the OS, you need to reinstall those anyway, no matter which drive they are on. So having them on a different drive makes no difference.

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OS and applications on one drive, data on other drives.

Putting your photo applications on a different drive neither hurts nor helps performance.
And if you need to reinstall the OS, you need to reinstall those anyway, no matter which drive they are on. So having them on a different drive makes no difference.

 
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Good point I was thinking ... Say needed to reinstall photoshop, I would want to format the drive, as Photoshop elements doesnt uninstall properly. But you have a point it will have messed up the registry of Windows anyway!

When you say date on the other drive, do you mean even the pictures I am working on editing as well ?

By splitting the data to another drive would that improve speed or make no difference?
 
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Yes, the pics you are editing.
Why? In the case of an OS reinstall, data on the other drive(s) is not affected.

I do a lot of image editing as well, and have a whole SSD dedicated for photo work. Mainly with LightRoom and Paintshop Pro. But ALL of the images start out, and get edited on, on a secondary SSD.

It also makes the backup process MUCH easier.
 
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Thanks,
I was going to buy another Intel 750 400GB to put the data on. And blow me the price has just gone up from £229 to £299 :( :(
Maybe a deal will re appear. Or I could buy a Samsung Pro M.2 512 GB for £250 or a 250GB for £140
I might as well get the 250GB and put the data on the Intel 400GB. As I assume 250GB would be big enough for Windows 10, Photoshop, Office, and Canon DPP?
 
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Yes. A 250GB drive is plenty large enough for the OS and your applications.

My current OS drive (Samsung 840 EVO 250GB) has Win 8.1 Pro (soon to be 10), Office Pro, Lightroom, Paintshop Pro, Corel VideoStudio, MS Visual Studio, etc, etc, etc.
Currently about 1/2 full (121GB used). Applications don't really take up as much space as you'd think.

Data, OTOH....1 week of photography takes up more drive space than Office 2013.
 
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that's good news, I was worried because when I set up the first 850 evo, it seemed to allocate a bunch of reserved space. and Windows 10 seems to set up 4 GPT partitions system, reserved, unallocated and primary - so I was worried it might run short - kinda defeating the whole thing.
Actually seems smart allocation of resource to put the OS on the little drive, and use the 400GB for the data.
I was shocked how fast this 5DS R eats disk space on a long shoot , one set o
of RAW files, one safety backup set of JEPGs and then some editied ones..........once in Photoshop they balloon from 83MB in RAW to 160 MB per image!!!
4 or 5 long all-day shoots murder a 500GB disc.
I'll need to work out how to rig up a little fan playing directly on the Samsung 950 Pros connector, as they get to 100C in 60 secs if you don't have additional cooling.

All 4 fan headers are used so maybe I'll use a molex power cable and try and wire that up at full speed [1500rpm]
Maybe one can get a 4 pin fan connector to a Molex power connector ?
 
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