3 SSDs for Premier Pro, but how big?

[wayneb81834193]

Having looked around the web for some assistance, there seems to be good reason for 3 SSD drives to run PP efficiently  (good resource from Puget Systems) 1 for O/S and programs, 1 for Media Cache & Scratch Drive, 1 for Project & Source Media, then a large HDD or RAID for archiving.

All good. I now want to implement this on an HP Z600 workstation with 2x Xeon processors and 48Gb of RAM. It is for short 4K stock footage sequences (around 1min in length), so nothing too demanding. I already have 1x 1Tb SSD for the O/S and programs, and a large HDD for archiving. Could somebody give an informed opinion of how big the other 2 drive need to be? Min Size and Max Size, and a bit of an explanation if possible.

Many thanks in anticipation

WB

[Peru Bob]

Moved to the Video Hardware forum.

[John T Smith]

I only edit home movies at 1280x720 30fps but I put as much as 2 hours on a timeline to then export for Encore to make a DVD (share with family, and not all have BD players) so my setup is not exactly yours

i7-4930k CPU in Asus Sabertooth X79 MB with Corsair 2x16Gig Ram and MSI 2Gig GTX760

Samsung 256Gig SSD Boot 83Gig used for Win10 and all programs

Crucial M550 512Gig for all video & sound & pictures

Crucial M550 256Gig for all temporary files

Crucial M550 128Gig for all output files

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-SuperSpeed-Docking-Station-Cooling/dp/B0055PL2YI docking station and a box of 'bare' drives for multiple backups

[Peru Bob]

My opinion:

The second SSD should be large enough to comfortably hold the media that you are using.

The third SSD should be for cache and scratch and be at least 500 GB.

You can also use the third SSD for exporting.