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Hi guys,
Just bought my first SSD drive (240GIG)and are about to set it up for the purpose of doing any Adobe CC work the fastest I can.
Obviously I have to install the Windows 7 Pro system onto the drive and Adobe files, I imagine that any work Adobe .psd/work files I should also keep on the drive?
So partition it like
C: Windows 100GIG
D: Program Files and Work Files 140GIG
Or should I add another drive E: so I can set scratch disks to it?
Or can scratch disks just utilise my old non SSD drive?
I imagine getting everything onto SSD would be the way to go, but thats only guessing.
Any help or advice would be great

First off, these things are solid state, with 2 million hour MTBF. They don't heat up and cool down much, since they don't draw much power. The reality is this: They just don't fail. I've had zero glitches in 1.3 years of daily hard use with this setup. No failures or errors or slowdowns or anything since it was new. A single electromechanical HDD seems WAY more prone to losing data.
Secondly, I do make backups. Anyone with any sense does. I complete a system image backup every night between 1am and dawn to external USB drive that can be restored to bare metal if need be. Windows Backup gets the job done quite nicely, and it not only provides catastrophic failure recovery capability, but also integrates with the Previous Versions feature - for everything. Having to rebuild an array and restore a backup is no big deal, if a failure should occur. Restoring individual files is trivial. If you're really paranoid you could build a RAID 5 or 10 array that could handle failures in stride, but in practice I've found it's just not needed.
Thirdly, JJ seems to want to debate whether there is a performance gain in making an SSD array. I'm guessing you haven't been able to directly compare a system so equipped. When your hardware can read an entire 1 GB file in less than a second - and it gives this kind of performance for every operation the system does - you'd better believe that helps. Care to compare benchmarks? Keep in mind this SSD design is nearly 2 years old. Modern top of the line drives such as the OCZ Vector would kick heck out of mine (OCZ Vertex 3) performance-wise.
Out of curiosity, if you start Windows Explorer, navigate to drive C:, select all the folders and files in the files pane, then right-click and choose Properties, how quickly does it count up your files? This is one case where a single SSD ought to run just about as fast as an array, since it's just a huge number of small I/O operations. My system enumerates its 618,411 files in 21 seconds, or about 30,000 files per second. See what yours does.
-Noel

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