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Photoshop Scratch Disk SSD vs 7200RPM

I need a drive mostly used for scratch disk, 

 

I was wondering if there would be significant performance impacts if I went with a 7200rpm as opposed to a SSD.

 

I was either going to get a Samsung 850 EVO 500gb or a WD Black 4TB. 

 

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depends on size of your image.

 

50mb RAWs

 

would 500 gb not be enough? 

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I think 250gb would be enough. 

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The SSD would be faster.

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I find an SSD is noticeably faster, but I don't have a real choice in the matter since my scratch disks end up being over 60 GB in size :)

 

For your application you probably won't notice.  In fact, I can't imagine why they would even be necessary - that should fit entirely in RAM

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I find an SSD is noticeably faster, but I don't have a real choice in the matter since my scratch disks end up being over 60 GB in size :)

 

For your application you probably won't notice.  In fact, I can't imagine why they would even be necessary - that should fit entirely in RAM

 

lol I dunno I have 32GB ram but sometimes I need to stack like 150 images into smart object and I get problems with scratch disk being full. 

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lol I dunno I have 32GB ram but sometimes I need to stack like 150 images into smart object and I get problems with scratch disk being full. 

Ah, ok then.  Then yeah I think just enable enough capacity on whatever drives you have.  I wouldn't worry about the speed too much; even opening/editing a 86400 x 36000 (that's not a typo) image (~ 7 GB) on HDD scratch disks, where it is loading off that same drive is a totally manageable number of seconds, so you should be fine with whatever you decide.

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