Im looking to increase the speed on my Laptop and Desktop by upgrading to SSDs.
The primary reason I need the increased speed is for using Adobe Premiere Pro ad After Effects - often at the same time, both ciomputers are impossibly slow at the moment.
I store all the video files -- the source content, the PP and AE files, and the exported files in my dropbox folder to allow me to work seamlessly from both work (DT) and home (LT) on the ssame files, and also as a backup.
To fit the OS, Adobe software, and my Dropbox folder on the SSD will require a 1TB SSD which is double the price of a 500GB SSD. For the Laptop I have no chice but top do that because it can only fit one internal storage device. Bot for the desktop, I could potentially store the OS and software on the SSD and dropbox on the HDD that is already in there, the question is whether having the files that will be worked on on the HDD will slow down performance considerably. I canno not separate the video files between the HDD (files Im not currently working with) and the SSD (files Im currently working with) because it is all organized within my DropBox fle, and to separate them would mean:
1. Fragmenting everything and leaving it far less organized, and needing to shift folders/files back and forth which could get really messy.
2. Losing the ability to work on something that is not currently in my primary "being worked on" folder unexpectedly -- which does happen.
3.Losing the backup that exists in DropBox.
If I store the OS and software on the SSD in the desktop and the dropbox folder with all the actual files on the HDD, will it significantly reduce the speed when working on those files in Adobe software vs having everything together on a SSD?