Photoshop Scratch Disk Question

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I am building a system mainly to run Photoshop as quickly as possible within my budget. I have two Samsung 500GB NVME drives, one for windows 10 and one which will only be used as a Photoshop scratch disk. I also have three 3TB drives for storage. Now I'm wondering if it doesnt make sense to have a dedicated SSD just for a scratch disk when I already have 32GB of ram.

I usually have 3 or 4 large files (150mb file size on disk) open at a time in photoshop, as well as running Adobe Lightroom on a separate monitor.

Cpu: i7 8700k

GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual

Thanks in advance!

c.pfaffenbichler · Accepted Answer

Now I'm wondering if it doesnt make sense to have a dedicated SSD just for a scratch disk when I already have 32GB of ram.

32GB RAM is not necessarily that terribly much (what are your History settings for example?), so a dedicated Scratch Disk does seem like a good idea to me.

Have you read this

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/optimize-photoshop-cc-performance.html

yet?

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