SSD drive filling up due to video rendering?

Hi. Apologies for what will no doubt be a stupid question but I'm not as computer savvy as many of you here.
Basically I film ice hockey games for my local team and produce weekly highlights for YouTube. I edit the footage using Premier Pro CC and then import that project into After Effects CC to add in the the few effects. I then render by using Adobe Media Encoder.
All of these filed are saved on my hard drive (D:) however I notice that after the process my SSD drive (C:) is rapidly filling up and I can't see why. I have Windows 8 and my C: Drive user folder is filled with 100+GB yet when I open the folder and add up the total of its contents it comes to little more than 16GB. I feel sure it's linked to the video editing unless it's a sheer coincidence that I noticed it only after making each set of highlights. Presumably some kind of temporary files folder that I can't locate?
Anyone with any suggestions I'd be grateful. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here.
Ta very much.

Drive C space http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1007934?tstart=0 see reply 4 for the setting that you need to manually change... and then delete any old temp files
-In Edit >Preferences > Media I changed this location to the D:\ drive as well
-Check C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe directory for superfluous data

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For help, my advice is that you contact the MSI distributor where you purchased your Titan. If they're good, they may know how to do this and may even do it for you. Depending on your location in the world, you may be contacting them anyway to get your bad SSD replaced. Since you've had your Titan for only 5 months, it should still be under warranty.
Here's a Tip: When you partition your SSDs, only partition 90% of their capacity. Leave 10% unpartitioned. Why? Because SSDs use "wear leveling" to prevent premature failure due to over-use of some sectors. Leaving part of the SSD unused, allows the wear leveling system to use it as needed to replace sectors that begin to go bad. It also helps keep your SSD running with top performance. Without it, your SSDs will gradually slow over their life.
We've built lots of computers and configured many RAID arrays. But we're late to the SSD scene and wanted to get off on the right foot. So we purchased our GT80 Titan-001 in the U.S. from Xotic PC. They configured the RAID arrays for us. That way the system could be tested as intended before delivery. They did an excellent job and we highly recommend them.
Buying a Replacement M.2 SSD
This is new to most of us and if you're not careful, you can purchase the wrong thing. Our Titans are designed to use an M.2 SATA-3 SSD with a 2280 size (22 mm wide x 80 mm long). It's edge connector must be keyed with both a "B" key and an "M" key. These "keys" are simply slots in the edge connector which identify the type of device to the Titan. Both the 2280 size and the keys are very important because M.2 SATA-3 SSDs also come in other sizes and some have only one of the two keys required by the Titan.
If you have to purchase your own M.2 SSD, the first thing to do is to remove your defective one so you'll see what it looks like. All four M.2 slots are located under the Titan's top cover. You remove two screws on the bottom of the Titan case to release the top cover. Then slide the top cover to the right (as you face the front of the Titan) and lift it away. It will slide very easily if you've removed the correct two screws (they're identified with a small HD/RAM symbol---one is in the rear left corner as you face the upside-down Titan's bottom cover and the other is located next to the subwoofer grille).
There is much confusion about the M.2 standard (we only recently figured it out, ourselves). You'll see the MSI literature refer to them as mSATA slots which is incorrect. The mSATA standard came first and is still in use. The M.2 is a new standard that improves on mSATA---but it is not mSATA. Both mSATA and M.2 can accommodate a variety of interfaces from PCIe to SATA. All four of the M.2 slots in the Titan are SATA-3 which means they are also backward compatible with SATA-1 and SATA-2. But you probably won't see any M.2 SSDs that use these older, slower SATA standards because M.2 is so new.
What makes both mSATA and M.2 different from the SSDs made to replace conventional 2.5" HDs in standard SATA bays of notebooks is that the mSATA and M.2 have no case---their circuitry and memory chips are exposed. The goal is to make SSDs and other devices that use mSATA and M.2 smaller and easier to cool than the old 2.5" form factor. That way they fit in ever smaller and thinner devices. M.2, as the newest standard, offers the greatest variety in size (both smaller and larger) and better utilization of its size and layout. When MSI chose M.2, they chose the newest, most advanced of these standards.
But we've discovered one (to us) serious drawback for M.2 SSDs: The largest M.2 SSD that you can presently get for the 2280 size is 512 GB. We desperately wanted a 1 TB capacity (which is available for mSATA) but it simply isn't available for a 2280 M.2---yet. If you're using a striped RAID-0 array, this is not a problem---you can combine four 512 GB M.2 SSDs into an MSI Super RAID 3 configuration in the Titan and have a 2 TB drive! But striped RAID is way too risky for our application so we're sticking with mirrored RAID-1 because it provides the protection and quick recovery that we need. Our consolation is that, with four M.2 slots, we can have two mirrored RAID-1 arrays and we'll eventually replace the second one with two 512 GB SSDs to get our 1 TB total capacity (a 512 GB RAID-1 in "Recovery" mode for drive "C" and a 512 GB standard RAID-1 for drive "D").
But that's not all: Not many folks know this---but you can also get a RAID case for a 2.5" SATA bay. It has the same size as a 2.5" hard drive case and it holds two mSATA SSDs. Since you can get mSATA SSDs in 1 TB capacities, you could create a 1 TB mirrored RAID-1 array for the 2.5" bay that is also solid state. So, if your application requires the protection of mirrored RAID and you need all possible capacity, you could achieve a total mirrored storage of 2 TB using three arrays in the Titan.
Kind regards, David

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