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one SSD or two SSD's for media editing performance

I am purchasing a new computer for a user that users a couple of the adobe suites and will be doing heavy video rendering soon. We read that with large file media editing, it is best to have two drives. One for the OS and one for data. I can see that being true with HDD's. We are going to purchase SSD's though. Would we see the performance increase if we had two SSD's or will we see the same performance with just one SSD?

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I think you'll get an improvement, as you have when using two HD. I remember that with adobe photoshop the recomendation was to have the swap file on a different disk. So the total gain will also depend on the application setup.
Also get the most powerfull CPU you can and the most memory that suits the applications.
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The real question is this.

Is it better to have two SSD's, one for data and one for OS, or will we get equal performance with just one SSD?

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Just weighing in. Follow garycase's sage advice and Callendor's expert follow up. You will not be able to tell if you have the program on an SSD, Photoshop just doesn't go back to the well that often. The real action is swapping those bits back and forth and crunching the numbers.