gfmucci
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Learning PSE2021, coming from PSE9. Just received new Nikon P950.
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Post by gfmucci on Dec 17, 2020 0:18:45 GMT
If I add a 1TB SSD to my HP Envy 700-406 computer where all Elements related files currently reside on my 1TB hard disk drive, where is the optimum location of my Elements files and program? Disk drive or SSD?
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Post by Andy on Dec 17, 2020 3:21:03 GMT
The best use of the SSD is for your operating system and your programs, including the Elements program. I believe it would also be beneficial to put the Elements catalog on it. It certainly doesn't hurt to put the photos themselves on the SSD, but you could run out of space depending how many images you have.
I run only a 512Gb SSD for my boot drive and programs and have a standard 4Tb disk for my images and other data.
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Post by BuckSkin on Dec 17, 2020 7:11:59 GMT
If you are going to run both, this is what I would do:
Load your system and all programs on one partition of the SSD - 150-GB should be way more than enough.
Create a like-sized partition on the HDD and Clone the system partition onto it; this gives you an emergency system that you can immediately boot to should the one on the SSD fail.
Give this spare system a unique name so that you can tell them apart in the boot menu.
Make sure that the SSD system is the default/priority that it boots to.
Usually, just making sure the SSD system partition is named C: and the HDD system partition a different un-used letter is enough to make the C: drive the default.
Then, I would load all of my data - pictures, documents, videos, etc. - on the remaining partition/drive of the SSD and use a program like Synchredible to mirror whatever is on the SSD onto the HDD.
Whatever you do, you will be surprised how quick photos will over-load a 1-TB disk.
On my main machine, I currently have four 2-TB HDD internally SATA connected, plus a 250-GB SSD system drive.
I have at least one back-up clone as I described on one of these internal disks and probably half a dozen more on disconnected disks stored away.
On top of all that, I keep periodic system backups using Macrium Reflect.
I recently had to test out the reliability of one of my Macrium backups of one of our laptops; the HDD just completely quit with no big catastrophic warning, just stopped dead in it's tracks.
I installed a new SSD in it's place, pointed the boot menu toward the Macrium backup that was stored elsewhere, and within minutes, it was up and running as if nothing amiss had ever happened.
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