mrjallen Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Very informative discussion, which I have valued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grh Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 With all due respect, you want an NVME device for scratch space, and a large SSD for workspace. Save the spinny drives for long-term storage. I have a 4TB RAID 1 volume on my windows system for my main LR catalog, and a 1TB SSD for things I"m working on. I boot from a 1TB NVME with lots of empty scratch space. I move folders back between the SSD and spinny as needed. Both get backed up to another server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Ingold Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 NVMe only applies to SSD drives. There is no net gain by transferring files from a RAID (or single HD) to an SSD for processing. It takes just as long to transfer the files as to open or save them in Photoshop, then you have to open and save them using the SSD (which is far from instantaneous). If you have enough memory, the images are completely in RAM during Photoshop operations. It's good to use an SSD for scratch memory, which is still needed for some operations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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