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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. > > 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. -- Eric James Wood Helium14 +1.714.254.5042 | mobile |
