Starting Over - Preferences?

[_Paz_]

I have two hard drives, each 500 GB.

The first is currently partitioned into two segments.

C drive = 149GB, 42 free
D drive = 315 GB, 315 free

E drive = 465 GB, 196 free
(I can move more files off of D but I'll have to buy another external hard drive first.)

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My original plan was for:

C to hold Operating System and Programs
D for scratch drive


E for files

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I've been saving video files on E and like a dunce, it didn't click that 'same as project' wasn't the same thing as 'same as source.'

Premiere Elements 11 has been saving all sorts of things on C drive. In fact, it was within 5 GB of being full. I've deleted and moved all sorts of things. Fortunately, most of the video I've already played around with has been experimental exercises.

I've heard 150GB isn't enough for C drive. So, I've been able to completely clear D drive and will soon attempt to move the partition if I need to.

How much is enough for C drive?

How should I set my preferences? I realize now that I did not set them at all when I upgraded to PreEl 11.

thanks for any suggestions,

Paz

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

....I've heard 150GB isn't enough for C drive....

Don't know where that advice came from. Seems big enough for me. In older PCs one originally got a 40GB or 80GB HDD and no other drives - and that was the standard not so long ago!!

My PC is configured as follows:

C: drive - I have a 120GB SSD as my C: drive. Only programs and Windows work files on that drive and it never gets above around 60% or so full.
D: drive - is for current (i.e. work in progress) video projects. It is a 150GB WD Raptor (This used to be my C: drive until I bought the SSD).
E: drive - a WD 500GB HDD and is used for for all of my data - documents, photos, music, spreadsheets etc. It also acts as interim storage for finished projects before I archive them.

All of my PC drives are backed up to a network attached storage (NAS) device. An external HDD would work equally well it is just that I have other uses for the NAS.

This arrangement works OK for me. No problems to date and never any disc space issues.