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Source: D Fosse


Generally, no. The consensus regarding SSDs seems to be that you get the best performance by having scratch on the system drive. In other words, just leave it at default configuration.

 

It was different with spinning drives, where the disk's read/write head couldn't be in more than one place at a time. Then it was also important to have contiguous, defragmented space. That's no longer a consideration.

 

Still, the main thing is to have the required gigabytes available. Especially with smart objects, scratch sizes can become huge, ten to a hundred times the file size. In any case, the new M.2 PCIe SSDs are so ridiculously fast that the scratch disk is no longer the bottleneck it used to be.

 

Of course, if you have a second M.2 port on your motherboard it can't hurt to use that for a scratch disk if you want to have it entirely out of the way.


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