Solid State Drive

[Shernel]

I have my Windows and After Effects/Premiere Pro 2015 on a 1TB HDD and I've assigned the media cache to the 120GB SSD

Will there be any difference in the speed using the SSD

First I was using the media cache on the same HDD
I only edit 720p to 1080p clips

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

You should always assign cache to the fastest drive -- which in your case is the SSD - it's many times faster than any HDD.

 

[Shernel]

Okay so keeping Windows and After Effects on the HDD is fine as long as I have the media cache assigned to the SSD?

Or should I move my Windows and After Effects to the SSD too ?

Would there be any difference in performance ?

 

[USAFRet]

Ideally, your OS and applications should be on the SSD.
However, given a 1TB current drive and a new 120GB SSD...that conversion is going to be a pain.
You can't move only those 2 pieces...Windows and AE.

That would almost certainly require a clean install of the OS and your applications on that small SSD.

 

[Shernel]

Yes I know that my C drive is around 60GB including all the applications and I don't play games

Yes it's a pain but can I avoid this agonizing conversion and just assign the media cache to the SSD and expect improvement in performance over the HDD ?

 

[USAFRet]

Yes I know that my C drive is around 60GB including all the applications and I don't play games

Yes it's a pain but can I avoid this agonizing conversion and just assign the media cache to the SSD and expect improvement in performance over the HDD ?

Yes, you can tell AE to use the SSD as cache space.
It will be "some" gain. But not huge.