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lou4uandme
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June 28, 2012
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SSD Hard drive and Premiere?

  • June 28, 2012
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Hi all,

I am building a new pc ( after 7 years..yippy! ) and i need to know some facts about adobe.

I can only afford to buy 2 SSD hard drives, (240 gig each)

To get MAX performance, i was planning to use 1 drive for my 5D & Red footage

and the other SSD drive for adobe cache disk.

My concern is, does Premiere need to be operating on an SSD also?

For example, my c drive. If I made that a SSD, would premiere work better or is it the drives that the footage is on that counts?

2nd, MEMORY & CUDA

I plan to use 16 gigs of ram and a gtx 570 (480 cudas)

With this system, will this be enough to "rip thru" and footage in real time?

Thanks,

Lou

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    excited_Genie16B8
    Legend
    June 28, 2012

    1st. - Using an SSD for the After Effects Global Cache feature is not a bad idea.  That can definitely help speed things up.  But a 256 GB SSD may not be enough for all the Adobe cache files if you have a lot of media, several projects going on at the same time, or both.  This could be even more true once you start building up AE cache previews, so you may want to think about using the SSD only for AE's Global Cache and using a separate hard drive for PP's cache files.  The other SSD would also probably be better used as a System drive rather than a Media drive, simply because it is rather small and won't hold a lot of media compared to 1 1TB drive or larger.

    2nd - The ability to "rip through" footage in real time is far more dependant on the CPU than the memory and graphics card.  Make sure that is up to snuff first, an Intel i7 model at least.

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    nickdbomb
    Participating Frequently
    June 28, 2012

    SSD are different than disk drives so some of the default settings in Windows 7 should be changed. I found this information very valuable in setting up a SSD.

    http://www.guru3d.com/article/zalman-n-series-128gb-ssd-review/4

    I am using the Zalman drive discussed in at the link above and have been impressed by the performance, especially the search speed.

    My CPU is a Intel 9450 and it is plenty fast enough for Premiere Pro editing of MP4 files.  I have not tried AVCHD fies but don't believe they would be any problem.

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    SAFEHARBOR11
    Participating Frequently
    June 28, 2012

    I don't recommend SSD for Media drives. Use SSD for system boot.

    For Media, get a 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s with 64mb cache, something like the Western Digital Caviar Black. Avoid any drive with "Green" in the name, these sacrifice performance to save energy, not good for video editing. Actually, get TWO drives and do a RAID 0 for better performance. Note RAID 0 is not redundant, please back up anything important.

    I can't speak for the RED footage, not knowing resolution/specs, but for any AVCHD or DSLR clips, a Core i7 machine with GTX card will work just great.

    Jeff Pulera

    Safe Harbor Computers

    UlfLaursen
    UlfLaursen
    Inspiring
    June 28, 2012

    Hi Lou

    Please read this interesting thread:

    http://forums.adobe.com/thread/662972?start=0&tstart=0

    There are tons of great info regarding disc setup for Premiere

    /Ulf

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