LAPTOP SSD SETUP ADOBE CC

[Baz R]

Hello everyone

Been a while, hope all is well.

I have a Msi GT75VR laptop.

At the moment I have 4x ssd slots

1x m.2 sata 1tb

2x nvme m.2 256gb raid 0

1x 2.5" ssd 500gb

All samsung

Windows is on the nvme as raid 0. However i was thinking of splitting the raid and using 1x nvme for windows and 1x nvme for temp/scratch files 

The 1tb for music /effects etc.

500gb for editing

Is there much advantage on using nvme for editing rather than ssd.  As i am willing to upgrade the ssd.

Any assistance appreciated

Baz

[ECBowen]

Yes the NVMe is faster and more often than not you wont need the speed of the NVMe for OS read/write requests.

Eric

ADK

[Baz R]

Hey Eric

from my SSD setup, what would you recommend i do.

is it necessary to have a separate temp/cache etc  .

[Bill Gehrke]

My name is not Eric and I do not have the resources of ADK to learn from but here is my suggested configuration.

Definitely break the NVMe RAID it is a terrible waste of fast SSD's

1. Use your 2.5" SSD for your OS/Applications
2. Use one of your NVMe m.2 256GB SSD's for your current project and the media associated with it, I f you have a number of current projects or large projects use the second one also but no RAID just as another SSD. 
3. Use your 1TB SATA M.2 SSD for backup/archiving
4. Temp/Scratch does not need a dedicated drive just room on any of your SSD's.
5. Forget my setup if Eric has other ideas

[Baz R]

Hey Bill

hope all is well

thanks for the advise

I usually do 1 to 2 projects at a time, and most of media are on backup external drives. I transfer as and when required.

I have done a quick benchmark with crystal disk and the 2.5 ssd with rapid mode does better in all apart from first read/write.

the bios is set to RST mode.

attached the benchmarks from the drives.

crucial 1050gb MX300

2x samsung SM961 256gb raid 0

samsung 850 pro 512gb rapid mode

[Bill Gehrke]

First of all the only spec that means anything for video editing with the CDM benchmark are the sequential read and write

Something lousy with MSI's implementation of that  2x samsung SM961 256gb raid 0

The individual sequential read specification for a SM961 is 3100MB/s where you show only 1725 MB/s for the pair in RAID 0 ????

Does this MSI GT75VR have a more complete model number?  Is it a stock item if we want to dig out more internal details?   MSI now has brand new Intel I9 models, is this one of those "dream" 6-core guy's?

[Baz R]

Hi,

link to the spec

https://www.msi.com/Laptop/GT75VR-7RF-Titan-Pro/Overview

model is a msi gt75vr 7rf titan pro

it came with 2x nvme & a hdd that i replaced with a samsung pro and a m.2 ssd

benchmarks are confusing

[Baz R]

ignore the benchmarks

the laptop was in eco mode and performance was low.

[ECBowen · Accepted solution]

You do not require dedicated cache drives with Adobe when using SSD's and especially NVMe drives. You should be fine using the NVMe drives for Media and cache.

Eric

ADK

[Baz R]

that is good

thanks Eric