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Subject: Re: [AE] what good is an SSD?
From: Eric James Wood <list@helium14.com>
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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:27:50 -0700
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Actually 40GB has been my sweet spot for systems for quite some time. I =
have 8GB of ram in the laptop, and my swap files almost never get over =
256MB, maybe 512 every once i awhile. That being said, i am a pretty =
clean person computer wise. I have CS6 installed with everything minus =
dreamweaver and flash. But my mail system is pretty clean as well, under =
150MB since i file email and delete a lot. I gave up on saving emails =
after projects are done long ago.

So on a 40GB partition, i have 15GB available at all times. Plenty for =
the system caches. The machine runs like a rocket, and just moving the =
AE caches to the 80GB partition on SSD was the clincher. Moving those =
files off the 5400 2.5" was key.

I also turn off safe sleep, since i feel it is for people that don't =
know what they are doing and never save files!

I find it much faster to quit programs and restart them when i need them =
rather than leaving every thing under the sun running at once as well. =
Off the SSD, starting anything is so quick, i don't know why people =
would leave apps running they haven't touched in a couple of days. My =
wife is really bad at that, and her same machine running on a hard =
drive, is pretty unusable to me.

I pretty much set my systems up to only use the system partition for the =
system and apps, i move all adobe caches to other fast media or raids on =
desktops, and now, to an SSD on the laptop. I don't usually care if =
something goes awry with my system since i can just pull out a clean =
clone and replace then update my user folder that is only about 1.5GB =
from an SD card i back up to daily. It all works pretty good.

On 2012.Aug.27, at 10.47, Jim Curtis <jpcurtis@me.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> But, if you're getting good results, power to ya'.
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> Thanks for the info about how the SSD has improved your Ae experience. =
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> 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.

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Eric James Wood
Helium14

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