Drive Setup SSDs for Premiere/Photoshop

morpheus1870

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I've acquired two more SSD drives for my system and wondered what the best way to set these up for performance when editing video and photos. Below is my current setup

Samsung Pro 950 250gb M.2 SSD - OS and Applications
Samsung Pro 850 EVO 250gb SSD - Working Files photo and video
WD My Book Duo 8TB - Completed projects and stuff don't use much

Here are the two SSD's I've purchased recently.

Samsung Pro 850 EVO 1TB SSD
Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD

How would you integrate the above 2 drives?

 
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In my setup, I have one drive for photo work, and another drive for video/CAD work.
(among others)

USAFRet

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Change the "working files" one or both of the new drives.
Reuse the 250GB 850 for pagefile and cache for your Adobe applications.

Or, completed files to the 1TB 850, and backups on the old 8TB HDD. You do have a good backup routine, right?
 

morpheus1870

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This is my workflow -

1) Offload footage/photos from my sd/cf cards to my working drive and my backup (raid 1) drive simultaneously,
2) Put the SD/CF media cards aside, do not format or reuse until everything is done.
3) Edit the project from the working SSD drive
4) Once the project is complete (client approved/delivered) I transfer the finished work to the backup drive at the same time uploading the finished project file, exported video/edited photos to dropbox.
5) Delete the project files and footage from the SSD
5) Format the CF / SD cards

I find however I run out of space quick with 250gb ssd drive as I can have several projects running simultaneously and therefore thought to use the 1tb drive as the working drive?

Suggestions?
 

USAFRet

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As said..."Change the "working files" one or both of the new drives."
 

morpheus1870

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So something like this? How would you use the 500gb drive, a backup of the working files drive?

Samsung Pro 850 EVO 1TB SSD - Working Files photo and video
Samsung Pro 850 EVO 250gb SSD - Cache
Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD - ?
WD My Book Duo 8TB - Completed projects backup
 

USAFRet

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In my setup, I have one drive for photo work, and another drive for video/CAD work.
(among others)
 
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