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I get that. Defragmenting kills the life of a flash based drive due to excess writes that arent technically needed. As for Bridge and CR, I may experiment with them and put them on the same drive and watch for any performance losses. I get pagefile too, Im not as well versed as you are but at one point I wanted to do Networking for a living and completed my MCSE and CCNP in 2003, then I decided it was more fun to travel the country buying and selling wholesale cars and trucks (which was an absolute blast). Ive always stuck around computers since then as a side, side hobby. Thanks for the help!

I forgot to add, its running a very debloated windows 11. I didnt want to run 11, but once i found some good debloat tools and could strip 11 down to its essentials, it made more sense for the long run and so far im liking it.

Evening Brian, I tried to ask this on the FB group but Damien slapped me upside the head for breaking Rule 1 and said to ask it here. So, let me preface it with the fact that i just finish a new pc build for christmas. Specs are I9, rtx3090, 64gb ddr5, 1tb PCIE Gen4 boot drive, 1tb 7200 spinner and 2tb 7200 spinner's to be used as storage drives and a 500gb pcie gen 4 scratch disk drive. My question, the scratch drive is to be used only for Photoshop as a scratch disk and nothing else pc related. Is it beneficial to also swap my Bridge and CameraRAW cache locations over to this drive too? I get how frequent fragmenting from PS could cause issues on the boot drive overtime but wasnt sure if its also beneficial to have Bridge and CR use the same disk as their own scratch drive of sorts. Thanks for the help!