Adobe Premiere Pro on a separate Win10 Partition for Best Performance?

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Hello and thank you for your time. Goal: I'm looking for the best editing experience my current PC build spec can offer. Editing 4k 24fps MOV files from Canon 1DX MKII and 4k 60FPS from GoPro 10 Black on a 30" 4K monitor (primary) with 2x 1080p monitors on left and right of 4k monitor. Understanding that's a lot of monitor output for a single GPU card. I've been considering partitioning my 1TB Samsung EVO Pro Plus NVME M.2 SSD drive and ONLY loading essential drivers and Adobe Premiere Pro + Photoshop on the new Win10 Pro partition. Will this offer enough performance increase to warrant the time and loss of drive space?My PC is also my home office business machine where I must have MS Teams running, the full MS Office suite with Adobe Acrobat, SnagIt, AcdSee photo editor and a full Antivirus solution. I understand these apps pull system resources. This came to me as an idea after benchmarking my system after a fresh install, then benchmarking my system after all of my MS Office apps, business programs, etc., etc and receiving a 15% lower score. Or, is there a viable software program that will kill all these processes and free up my system for when i'm using Premiere Pro and Photoshop, negating a fresh partition with Premiere?PC Spec:i9-9900k64GB Corsair Dominator Platinum CAS-15EVGA RTX 2090 SuperHD#1: Evo Pro Plus 1GB NVME m.2 (OS drive)HD#2: Evo Pro Plus 2GB NVME m.2 (Premiere Project files)HD#3: Samsung 500GB Sata SSD drive (Premiere Cache files)HD #4, #5, #6 - all 6TB SATA, 7200RPM (media storage files)Appreciate the education. I'm fairly technical with PCs but not knowledgeable about system setup for video editing. Doug

R Neil Haugen · Accepted Answer

Hi Ann,Interesting, if I understand are you suggesting to boot to a seperate, smaller drive that only contains OS and Software when using Premiere Pro? The general idea is the boot drive has the OS and programs, and as little else as possible. For instance, I use a large HD and put all documents, the download folder, all of that stuff on it. The OS SSD is again kept as much as possible for OS/programs, though one does have to fight Windows about that at times. Puget's recommendation is good. Notice, like my comment, the cache files are on an SSD, and by themselves. They are used heavily and fast access makes a notable difference. Neil

R Neil Haugen · Answer

It's been quite some years since adding a partition made any use or sense. And with a rig running two Nvme drives and a third SSD, with only one HD, you should have good speeds. I would put the cache files on an SSD by themselves, personally. Add another large SSD for main 'working' media.

Neil

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