Is ssd important for art work (photoshop elements) ?
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No. All a ssd does for you is access your files faster. You don't really need one. It does help if you put games on it.
996388
Not at all. SSD allocates information that you use the most to itself. You don't even have to worry about it.
100547
Mate, it's always best for overhead. You're gonna need higher res textures anyways so just go for the 3gb
711677
This computer is built for media and graphics. It should run photoshop with no problems.
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The ssd is within the hard drive. Is uses as cache for os and applications.
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Check the failure rates of 4 TB vs 1 TB/2 TB drives first. Also, what do you really plan to do? SSD is quick, definitely. You could get a 128 GB SSD for the OS and offload most program installs, profile info etc., onto a 2TB drive. You'd have speed + lots of storage. But if you want speed + storage redundancy you can try a RAID configuration.Honestly, SDD's are quick but I don't get bummed or impatient when my workstation--which uses conventional SATA drives--takes 10-12 seconds to boot (vs. 3-5 seconds for my ultrabook, which has SSD). I just don't. It's an issue of cost. Many conventional drives have large caches on them. The best compromise are the hybrid drives, such as the Seagate Momentus XT series. Check the failure rates of 4 TB vs 1 TB/2 TB drives first. Also, what do you really plan to do? SSD is quick, definitely. You could get a 128 GB SSD for the OS and offload most program installs, profile info etc., onto a 2TB drive. You'd have speed + lots of storage. But if you want speed + storage redundancy you can try a RAID configuration.Honestly, SDD's are quick but I don't get bummed or impatient when my workstation--which uses conventional SATA drives--takes 10-12 seconds to boot (vs. 3-5 seconds for my ultrabook, which has SSD). I just don't. It's an issue of cost. Many... » Read More Check the failure rates of 4 TB vs 1 TB/2 TB drives first. Also, what do you really plan to do? SSD is quick, definitely. You could get a 128 GB SSD for the OS and offload most program installs, profile info etc., onto a 2TB drive. You'd have speed + lots of storage. But if you want speed + storage redundancy you can try a RAID configuration.Honestly, SDD's are quick but I don't get bummed or impatient when my workstation--which uses conventional SATA drives--takes 10-12 seconds to boot (vs. 3-5 seconds for my ultrabook, which has SSD). I just don't. It's an issue of cost. Many conventional drives have large caches on them. The best compromise are the hybrid drives, such as the Seagate Momentus XT series. « Show Less
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Works great for me. Have 6. We are photography studio. Use them for storing images and templates used in daily tuning of studio. So they are plugged in/out often. We keep all our photoshop stuff on one drive, to keep off workstation. It is used with both workstations & laptop. Switching between the three often. Never issue. I do, however, replace those drives as well. If it's a drive that gets a lot of use, I replace it every 18 months. Just to be safe.
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Hybrid drives are slower. 8GB of Flash, what are you going to do with that. I've tried many Seagates. Dual drive is better but pure SSD why not these days
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Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 (and previous versions) will run on this computer, however it will run very ineffectively. It will use about 50% of this computers RAM and nearly all of it's processing speed. If you are using advanced tools such as the Healing Brush Tool, Blur Tool, Smear Tool, and anything else that does advanced pixel manipulation, the computer will slow down and the program may crash. I recommend finding a machine with at least 6GB of RAM, and quality performance dual core processor. You might find one for around $350
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Basic photo editing will probably not be a problem depending on the amount of RAM available for the onboard GPU to share and the size of the image in question. Otherwise, a CUDA capable graphics card will accelerate certain Photoshop functions.
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That is one of the reasons I got it. I'm a professional photographer and this is such a better deal than a Mac, performance per $. Very upgradable too. Ditch the HDD and get another Solid drive. Runs Lightroom and Photoshop like a boss. It's also great for video, runs Davinci Resolve and Premiere great.
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It takes a few weeks for it to really speed up your work because it "learns" which programs you use the most then stores them on the ssd for faster access. If you really want to speed up your machine you can add RAM too.
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You would be far better off to get an SSD and USB 3.0 UASP enclosure...you would spend about the same amount of money to get twice the speed and twice the storage for your photos. :)
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I can't answer that through a test, as I'm using a Mac Mini with a SSD internal drive that only holds the OS and the program files. All of my music, movies, documents, etc. are on the first external drive, the second is a back-up of the first drive, the third backs-up the internal SSD and the 4th is a time-machine back-up (I don't use the external in a RAID configuration). I can tell you that I do not notice any difference compared to my former MacPro that had internal bays. I just opened my photo library that holds more than 42,000 photos and can scroll through the thumbnails without any lag. I also have more than 23,000 songs in iTunes and when I scroll through that, there is no lag, and all the album artwork appears instantly. I recently commented to a friend who purchased the new MacPro (has not arrived) and ordered the DataTale thunderbolt enclosure that I could not tell I was using an external drive. I also use Aperture for photo editing (large RAW files) and there is no lag when editing. It's a great drive!
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I use my ssd just for the OS and programs. Data storage such as music and documents I do one an HDD I have both installed internally.
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I don't have any very specific experience with video editing with this specific SSD, but the data rates with playing, encoding and rendering video is usually very very low, even for hard drives. For lossless video capture though it might be a concern for data rate, but I don't doubt this drive would have any issues.
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I write novels, play World of Warcraft and frequently use Adobe photoshop...with 16GB of system RAM and a 3GB video card, I'd definitely say "yes" to your question.