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so I know that my WD 1 terabyte Caviar Black hard drive is beginning to die, but I would like to get 4 more gigs of ram for editing in my PC. I use Adobe Premiere Pro and Media Encoder for YouTube. But I wanted to know which one I should do first, I'll be able to get 1 right now and the other in about 3 weeks. I'm looking for faster render times.Thanks.

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I don't think you will like losing all your data. Hard drive first.

Ps. From 8gigs you go to 16gigs not 12.You will lose the dual channel memory.

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Get a new HDD first.

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so I know that my WD 1 terabyte Caviar Black hard drive is beginning to die, but I would like to get 4 more gigs of ram for editing in my PC. I use Adobe Premiere Pro and Media Encoder for YouTube. But I wanted to know which one I should do first, I'll be able to get 1 right now and the other in about 3 weeks. I'm looking for faster render times.Thanks.

Yea I would get a new hard drive first. And then get an additional 8gbs of ram. Don't add 4gbs to 8

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