Best SSD setup for video editing?

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February 18, 2017
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hello,

i just recently purchased a dell xps 15 laptop and I'm getting into video editing. It has a 1TB hard drive and 32GB RAM.

someone told me I should get an external SSD(Samsung T3) to do all my photo and video editing on.....?

And I'd then another hard drive to store all of my finished projects on....?

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RoninEdits

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hopefully your laptop came with a ssd for the os/apps to use... yes, you can use an external usb 3.0 ssd as you describe, then to save space archive them to a hdd or other safe storage solution. if you don't want an external drive, you would have to see if you could add or upgrade the storage inside the laptop.

PhantomMotionFilmsAuthor

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Yes it came with a really fast 1TB SSD. Do I use the same external SSD for storing the cache.....?

RoninEdits

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if the 1tb ssd it came with is a pcie ssd and capable of around 2gb+ read/writes (you can check with crystaldiskmark), then you could use it for your media and projects as well, as long as everything fits on that one drive. that would skip the need for an external ssd, and instead just worry about the backups/archives with an external hdd or nas, etc. if its around those speeds and you still plan on using an external ssd for media, then you could use the internal 1tb ssd for cache. if the internal ssd is around sata ssd speeds at 500mb, then it may not matter as much, but might do slightly better on the external ssd.

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