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September 14, 2017
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Four drives: what to put where?

  • September 14, 2017
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Current notebook has access to 4 drives. The OS is on:

Drive 1 C: Samsung 960 EVO 250GB M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe

Also has two Internal drives:

Drive 2 😧 Samsung 960 EVO Series - 1TB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD

Drive 3 E: 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive

And one external:

Drive 4 F: Samsung T5 Portable SSD - 500GB - USB 3.1 External SSD

Going by Harm M's. Guidelines, with 4 Disks it's suggested that beyond the OS drive, Premiere settings should be configured with Media/projects, Pagefile/Cache, and Previews/Exports on separate drives.

Obviously the 1TB 7200 SATA is by far the slowest drive, so wondering which area of Premiere should I assign that drive to, and what's the best way to assign the remaining drives?

😧 Media,Projects (which drive?)
E: Pagefile, Media Cache (which drive?)
F: Previews, Exports (which drive?)

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    Participant
    September 16, 2017

    Nice to see Harm's name mentioned. It's good sometimes to see people are remembered.

    Bill Gehrke
    Inspiring
    September 14, 2017

    Forget drive E for any files except backup and archiving   Drive D is fast enough for all the project files, media and exports.

    tymbeAuthor
    Known Participant
    September 14, 2017
    Forget drive E for any files except backup and archiving   Drive D is fast enough for all the project files, media and exports.

    Thanks-- that makes sense. However if I were to replace that 7200 HD with a faster SSD drive, would that provide a way to segregate the drives somehow to achieve greater performance, or would the improvement be negligible? Using it as the cache drive for example. Mainly working with HD a some 4k video source files.

    Bill Gehrke
    Inspiring
    September 14, 2017

    With my testing on the basic functions of Premiere I have not been able to see any difference over my two SSD basic configuration. The super speed M.2 SSD's have so much bandwidth that for Premiere basic usage that unless you are doing extremely complex projects with very heavy multitasking the old rulle of lots of drives is obsolete