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vaphoto
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September 27, 2018
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Moving PS to a faster nvme drive

  • September 27, 2018
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How do I move my Photoshop and Lightroom apps to a faster drive.

I have a 2010 MacPro tower with the current apps on my SSD as the boot drive.(250gb sata 2)

Id like to move it to a fast nvme drive to gain some speed.

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    Correct answer D Fosse

    Moving the Photoshop application won't do much, if anything. The big speed gain is to put Photoshop' scratch disk there. You do this in Preferences. For Lightroom - catalog and associated folders. Also move the ACR cache here (it's used by Lightroom Develop module).

    But to really take advantage of an NVMe drive, you should use it as your system drive. OS, applications, the lot. And then have enough capacity to also have PS scratch there (which means at least 500GB, preferably 1TB).

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    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    September 27, 2018

    Moving the Photoshop application won't do much, if anything. The big speed gain is to put Photoshop' scratch disk there. You do this in Preferences. For Lightroom - catalog and associated folders. Also move the ACR cache here (it's used by Lightroom Develop module).

    But to really take advantage of an NVMe drive, you should use it as your system drive. OS, applications, the lot. And then have enough capacity to also have PS scratch there (which means at least 500GB, preferably 1TB).

    JJMack
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    JJMackCommunity Expert
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    September 27, 2018

    Yes Scratch and Temp space on SSD will be bette use of you faster SSD.  You state your Applications are installed on SSD even if you have faster SSD they would be better used for Scratch and Temp space.  For you only read you applications data from you ssd and SSd read performance is great from all SSd.  Writing performance is not as good a read performance.  So you want to be able to read and write  your temp files and scratch file as fast as possible they should be on your fastest ssd devices.

    JJMack
    Akash Sharma
    Akash Sharma
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    September 27, 2018

    Hi vaphoto,

    Could you please take a look at this similar discussion Install Lightroom/Photoshop CC on SSD or HDD Drive  and let us know if that helps?

    Thanks,

    akash

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