SSD and Mechanical drive

[reddace]

I presently use Premiere Elements 8.1 on Window's 7' 64 bit machine. I have two internal Sata drives. One C: for program and the second D:, for scratch disk and video files for projects. I would like to replace the C: drive for a SSD drive and just run the operating system and Premiere Elements 8.1 on it and still use my present D: drive for scratch and video files for projects. Would I have any problems doing this or any down the road conflicts? Thanks in advance.

[Steve Grisetti]

Are you asking if you would have trouble swapping in a new hard drive, generally, or are you asking if you'd have trouble running Premiere Elements, specifically, from this new drive?

Premiere Elements doesn't really care if you've swapped in a new drive. But it does prefer to be on your system's C drive -- and it does run more efficiently, as you say, if your media files and scratch files are on a second drive.

[reddace]

Just the fact of using a SSD drive as opposed to mechanical in rendering, accessing or any other unforseen bottlenecks.

[Bob]

Replacing your C: drive with an SSD will improve boot times and program load times, but it won't necessarily make your programs run faster. It depends on what your programs are doing and what the bottlenecks are.

The SSD will look like a conventional hard drive to the system. You can expect the same types of problems as replacing your C: drive with another conventional hard drive. SSDs do not yet come in large capacities. Keep track of your storage utilization.

You specifically mentioned rendering with Premiere Elements. Rendering and encoding are computationally intensive. Your bottleneck is the cpu, not disk I/O. It's unlikely you'll see any improvement in rendering.

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

Just my twopenny worth. I have also considered replacing my 10,000 rpm Raptor C drive with an SSD but after much research and googling I have decided that at present price points for SSDs that it isn't really going to give me any gain. So I have deferred that upgrade sine die and decided my next upgrade will be a mobo/cpu swap.

[Chris B]

I've got an (older) SSD as a boot drive. It's great. Things happen very quickly. However write performance on cheaper drives is often not quite as good as it could be. Also it's very easy to get scratch/temporary files taking up most of the drive quite quickly. As such it requires quite strict discipline to make sure everything is where is should be. This of course assumes a smaller boot drive - if you've got loads of cash it won't be an issue.