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Shamnaz Mavayil

Shamnaz Mavayil

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Hi, I am Shamnaz from India. now i want to make a midrange system for my graphic design mainly in Photoshop. For this i bought intel i5 8600K , Gigabyte z370 HD3P and Corsair Vengeance 16 Gb RAM. Now i want to buy a 240 Gb ssd. Here i have question, usually designers installing OS in ssd and set photoshop scratch disk as C drive ( cause c is ssd). if i bought two ssd of 120 Gb and install OS and programs in first and second one is setting as dedicated scratchdisk for photoshop, it will improve performance of photoshop? the second ssd also useful for current work (copy current working folder to second ssd and delete after the work). this is my concept it will improve photoshop performance? and what about if i buy a 240 ssd and split that into two partition , first partition for os and second partition for photoshop. Which idea will work for a faster experience in photoshop?
 
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There is no advantage to having separate smaller SSDs of the same technology, or a larger one divided into partitions, save perhaps from an organizational/backup perspective.

Applications with very large files that are massively storage speed restricted will probably respond best with an NVME m.2 drive in use as the OS/application drive...(if you anticipate lots of large file writes daily such as in 4k/8k video editing, etc., I'd probably be looking at a Samsung 970 Pro...; 10-20 TB per year workloads, the 970 EVO is more than adequate and priced much better....)
 
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Shamnaz Mavayil

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But adobe always recommended to keep scratch disks on a different drive than the one your operating system uses
 
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There is a significant advantage in Adobe products like Photoshop and Premiere in having a scratch disk on a separate physical SSD. Just make sure to set it up in Edit>Preferences>File Handling.

This is only true of such programs that use distinct scratch disks though.
 
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Partitions on an SSD does nothing for your performance.
They are not physical separations like they are on a spinning HDD.

Multiple physical SSD's are a good choice.
My current setup:

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top to bottom:
500GB - OS and all applications
250GB - photowork (Lightroom and paintshop pro files)
250GB - video/CAD work (Hitfilm Express, Rhino3D, etc)
960GB - games, and anything that does not fit in the above
120GB - scratch disk for the above applications

But don't get 2 x 120GB drives.
That will fill up quickly.

Get a single 250GB to start with, and add others later.
 
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