Best hard drive Mac Mini for CC

I get my grandson a Mac Mini to run CC and I would like to comment on the choice of hard drive. It will be a high school sophomore in the fall, taking the Junior trail class multi media and use Photoshop and the Prime Minister a little.

I'm looking at: Mac Mini

  • 2.3 GHz Quad - Core Intel Core i7
  • 16GB

Now, if you had your choice what drive would you and why. I take into consideration price, speed and scratch on the disc and want to get the best bang for the buck. I am considering the SSD for speed and then perhaps down the road I might add an external for Scratch disk space. I have not use CC but was prepress for many years and has spent a lot of time in Photoshop myself so I know he has a lot to learn and wants to maintain its level of frustration to a minimum. Any thoughts?

1 TB 5400 RPM Serial ATA hard drive,

1 TB Fusion drive,

256 GB Solid State Drive

Thank you for your comments :-)

Ask https://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/hardware_forum of Premiere Pro

In general... SSD for the OS and all the software... internal 7200 RPM for data files... If external, it must be USB3 or eSata, USB2 not

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