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Subject: Re: [AE] what good is an SSD?
From: Jim Curtis <jpcurtis@me.com>
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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:47:23 -0500
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Seems to me that a 120 internal drive is too small to efficiently partition.  Since the Mac OS free drive space for the VM swapfile and Spotlight index (if you have it enabled), 40G seems awfully puny.  I like to keep 80-100 GB free on my boot drive for that purpose.

But, if you're getting good results, power to ya'.

Thanks for the info about how the SSD has improved your Ae experience.  

I'm using my 1-2 Gb/s io RAID for my Ae and Pr caches.  With both running, and several projects active, the total size of my cache folders can exceed 100 GB.


On Aug 27, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Eric James Wood wrote:

> So i have been working on an AE project with about 50 3d layers, nothing crazy. 2011 MBP with 2.2GHz i7. It has been a little painful waiting on previews, etc.
> 
> my internal SSD is pretty small at 120 in 2 partitions, 40 and 80GB. 40 for the system and apps, 80 for some work. So i moved my cache to the SSD to try and see if it would help.
> 
> CRAP! Made working much much more acceptable. Things that were taking 1-5 minutes, now take seconds. I am ordering a 512 SSD for this machine today and moving some stuff around!
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