{"id":15615,"date":"2008-11-14T14:37:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T14:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/11\/cs4-solid-state-drives-ssds.html"},"modified":"2008-11-14T14:37:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T14:37:48","slug":"cs4_solid_state_drives_ssds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/14\/cs4_solid_state_drives_ssds\/","title":{"rendered":"CS4 &amp; solid-state drives (SSDs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">There&#8217;s an misleading line in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/photoshop\/photoshop\/systemreqs\/\">system requirements<\/a> listed for Photoshop CS4 and other Adobe CS4 products: contrary to the statement that CS4 &#8220;cannot install on&#8230; flash-based storage devices,&#8221; <strong>the apps install and run perfectly well on solid-state drives<\/strong> (SSDs), such as those available in the MacBook Air and the new Sony VAIO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">I&#8217;m told that the line was written to let customers know that they can&#8217;t install on removable flash-based media such as Compact Flash cards.&#160; (Yes, people try weird things, then get mad when those things don&#8217;t work.) <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">On a related note, I expect to get some questions about performance impact of using SSDs together with Photoshop.&#160; I don&#8217;t have any numbers or recommendations to share at the moment, though our performance testing lead has been testing a high-end <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fusionio.com\/\">Fusion-IO drive<\/a> (160GB,<br \/>\n~$7200 retail). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an misleading line in the system requirements listed for Photoshop CS4 and other Adobe CS4 products: contrary to the statement that CS4 &#8220;cannot install on&#8230; flash-based storage devices,&#8221; the apps install and run perfectly well on solid-state drives (SSDs), such as those available in the MacBook Air and the new Sony VAIO. &#160; I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}