I Need Help Please :/

[HighTech Media]

Im willing to spend %350 (maybe allitle more) on Storage and I want to use it efficiently Im a designer and work alot with photoshop and also love to have alot of music. What is recommended? For sure I need an SSD, I already have a 128GB samsung 830 Series SSD but I feel its too little. Let me know please different combinations, so much to choose from Im confused on what to buy

 

thank you alot

Edited July 17, 2014 by HighTech Media

[dizmo]

500GB SSD and a 1tb HDD?

Then another 8gb of RAM.

[CoolBeans]

You could get a 500GB 840 Evo and a barracuda of the size you want

[WoodenMarker]

How much storage you need depends on your preference. 

What kind of photoshop work are you doing? At what scale?

As for mass storage, just get a seagate barracuda of whatever size you need. 

[CleanMyRoom]

Guide from Adobe

http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/optimize-performance-photoshop-cs4-cs5.html#main_Solid_state_disks

Solid-state disks

 

Installing Photoshop on a solid-state disk (SSD) allows Photoshop to launch fast, probably in less than a second. But that speedier startup is the only time savings you experience. That’s the only time when much data is read from the SSD.

 

To gain the greatest benefit from an SSD, use it as the scratch disk. Using it as a scratch disk gives you significant performance improvements if you have images that don’t fit entirely in RAM. For example, swapping tiles between RAM and an SSD is much faster than swapping between RAM and a hard disk.

 

If your SSD doesn’t have much free space (the scratch file grows bigger than can fit on the SSD), add a secondary or tertiary hard disk. (Add it after the SSD.) Make sure that these disks are selected as scratch disks in the Performance pane of Preferences.

 

Also, SSDs vary widely in performance, much more so than hard disks. Using an earlier, slower drive results in little improvement over a hard disk.

 

Note: Adding RAM to improve performance is more cost effective than purchasing an SSD. If money is no object, you're maxed out on installed RAM for your computer, you run Photoshop CS5 as a 64-bit application, and you still want to improve performance, consider using a solid-state disk as your scratch disk.

 

As noted above, an SSD doesn't improve performance if the efficiency indicator is already high. The lower the efficiency indicator, the greater the improvement an SSD offers.

 

 

 

[IdeaStormer]

I'd recommend a RAID 10 setup, you photoshop guys need fast disk access and hate to lose your precious drawing. If you are willing to risk your precious go for the single SSD and big ass HD combo, but note that you've been warned about its deficiencies in keeping you safe from failure.

 

Back to the RAID 10 setup, I guess you would have to buy the largest drive you could of four of them in the $350 range. Don't forget max out the RAM to keep your Photohop sessions from hitting the page file.