Which hard drive to install Premiere CS3 [Archive]

Lloyd Claycomb

February 2nd, 2008, 09:50 PM

Miguel Lombana

February 3rd, 2008, 08:59 AM

I just installed Premiere CS3 on my system. I think I did it right, but please confirm this for me.

I have three hard drives.

C: is my OS, of course.
E: is where I installed it (7200 speed 16MB, 250 GB)
I: is where I intend to do all my capturing and video files (7200 speed, 32MB, 1TB).

I figured that one hard drive could run the main program itself while the big HD (1TB) is dedicated for the video itself.

Good idea or bad?

There seem to be many over thought theories on this, I did it the way I thought was best so I'll share that, I'm sure that there are some ubergeeks that will have a theory that involves 27 drive partitions and so many physical drives that no power supply known to the computer industry would be able to handle it all.

My setup:

D1-150G 10k Western Digital (OS, Warez, Pagefile etc.
D2/3-1TG Raid 0 (2x 500G WD Drives)- Main Work Drive (Project Files, Captures etc.)
D4-160G 7.2k Western Digital Scrap Drive- Backups, Drive Images (Ghost), Saver Files (Renders to save etc.)

I also have a 1.5TB External drive connected to the box via USB 2.0 that I use for basic day to day stuff, archives, etc. Beyond that I have a 2TB Network drive that is for all my machines but the video system has a large chunk there as well, it's a secondary backup drive for saving important files.

I think that from the OS perspective, to have all your warez and OS on the same drive is the most efficient, my RAID cluster is huge and can accommodate almost any project then when it's done I can re-format that drive before I start a new project. All the project files that I need to save, like renders etc I move to D4 or the network.

Hope this helps.

Miguel