Question After Effects software installed on slower SSD, reading files from a fast NVME

[ldotchopz]

Hello,

I have Adobe After Effects installed on my C drive that is using a regular SSD wiith a read and write speed of 390/83. I am working with large image sequences which are over a gigabyte each. If i were to put them on my D drive which is a fast NVME read and write of 3444/949, would the fact that the software thats reading them is on a slower drive have an effect on the speed of which they are read? since the software itself is on a slower drive, does the data have to be read thought the NVME and then transfered into the SSD? i hope this is clear what i am asking. I'm looking for peak performance but if the fact that the software is on a slower drive then its a bottleneck. Thanks!

 

[dwd999]

Hello,

I have Adobe After Effects installed on my C drive that is using a regular SSD wiith a read and write speed of 390/83. I am working with large image sequences which are over a gigabyte each. If i were to put them on my D drive which is a fast NVME read and write of 3444/949, would the fact that the software thats reading them is on a slower drive have an effect on the speed of which they are read? since the software itself is on a slower drive, does the data have to be read thought the NVME and then transfered into the SSD? i hope this is clear what i am asking. I'm looking for peak performance but if the fact that the software is on a slower drive then its a bottleneck. Thanks!

It might depend on where the software stores its temporary working files. If there's a setting for temp file location, changing that would be a good start.

 

[USAFRet]

Hello,

I have Adobe After Effects installed on my C drive that is using a regular SSD wiith a read and write speed of 390/83. I am working with large image sequences which are over a gigabyte each. If i were to put them on my D drive which is a fast NVME read and write of 3444/949, would the fact that the software thats reading them is on a slower drive have an effect on the speed of which they are read? since the software itself is on a slower drive, does the data have to be read thought the NVME and then transfered into the SSD? i hope this is clear what i am asking. I'm looking for peak performance but if the fact that the software is on a slower drive then its a bottleneck. Thanks!

What are all the parts in this system, particularly the motherboard and specific drives?
Those drive speeds are pretty slow.

 

[USAFRet]

Overall though...put your project files on the faster drive.

 

[ldotchopz]

What are all the parts in this system, particularly the motherboard and specific drives?
Those drive speeds are pretty slow.

I know the first drive is slow but other is not what i'd call slow. what kind of speeds do you get out of interest?

my motherboard is a zeneth extreme alpha 2
32 core amd threadripper 3970x
2080TI
128gb ram

 

[USAFRet]

I know the first drive is slow but other is not what i'd call slow. what kind of speeds do you get out of interest?

my motherboard is a zeneth extreme alpha 2
32 core amd threadripper 3970x
2080TI
128gb ram

The "390/83" is a SATA III SSD?
The "3444/949 " is an NVMe of some type?

This is typical of my SATA III SSDs.

 

[USAFRet]

What are you using to test this?