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defaulty12hnnkujwzv
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November 13, 2021
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Premiere pro SSD help

  • November 13, 2021
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I want to uninstall and reinstall my mac operating software and all my adobe apps onto an ssd.

 

My first question is will this affect any current projects I am working on in Premiere pro?

 

And my second question is which SSD is best for handling these tasks?

 

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RjL190365
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November 14, 2021

Which Mac do you have? Many newer Macs cannot be upgraded internally at all. And even if you can physically upgrade the storage (OS drive), Apple has locked down the firmware so that you cannot just slap any plain old SSD into the system. You would be restricted to certain SSDs whose firmware is compatible with Apple's EFI.

 

And if your Mac is more than about five years old, it's time to start shopping for an entirely new Mac as both hardware and software support for older Macs would become depreciated to "vintage," and eventually "obsolete," status. You do not want to continue using a Mac that cannot officially run the latest version of MacOS, as versions of MacOS that's more than three major versions old now no longer receive security updates. The cutoff is currently set at 10.15 (Catalina).

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defaulty12hnnkujwzvAuthor
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November 14, 2021

I have a M1 16gb Mac mini with 500 gigs of storage. I also have a 2tb Samsung t7 that I use for all my 4K video files and storage. 

I'm now at the point where I would like a second ssd to at least run my Adobe software on and possibly my OS drive as well

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RjL190365
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November 15, 2021

In this case, you cannot upgrade anything internally at all. Everything is permanently soldered onto its motherboard. Worse, the case cannot be opened at all by the user. Finally, AFAIK only internal drives are bootable at all in that Mac Mini.

 

In other words, you're permanently stuck with what's already inside that system's case. The only storage upgrade would be an external drive,

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