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YargJay9991-F1yrx0
YargJay9991-F1yrx0
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November 4, 2019
Question

Best Way to Utilise My Current Hard Drive Setup

  • November 4, 2019
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Hi all,

 

Wanting some advice on the best way utilise my current hard drive setup in an optimal way for video editing.

I do a fair bit of After Effects work as well.

 

I don't particularly know how to find exact specs. But I run a 1TB SSD, 500GB standard Hard Drive, and another 500GB standard drive for all system stuff and programs etc.

 

I've ended up putting all my stuff on the SSD, including project files, footage, and temp files; because I just assumed it would be easiest and fastest, but have heard of a number of different ideas of putting different elements of projects on different drives to optimise the performance of the computer.

 

So things like, where to put my temp files and media cache, footage files, other documents, project files etc.

What are good practices when it comes to that sort of thing?

 

Appreciate any help given 😄 

Thanks!

 

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Steve Griffiths
Inspiring
November 4, 2019

In an ideal world you'd be using SSDs throughout 🙂 but unless you can afford it - stay with what you have until you run out of space 🙂

SSDs for things relating to PP & AE is of course very good. The reality though is that spinning hard drives are way cheaper and great for storing stuff.

 

Preferably your spinning hard drives are running at 7200rpm rather than 5400rpm and the bigger drives (with more platters inside) are also generally faster than smaller drives. Particularly the newer drives. SSDs are not all created equal either. Off the self SSDs will do around 400-600 Megabytes per second. M.2 drives can reach toward 2GB per second.

 

Others may be able to chime in on the relative merits of splitting cache files, renders, apps and system files. 

 

By the way - if you want to see how your particular drives perform download Blackmagic Designs (free) 'Speed Disk' software. Useful info there!

    YargJay9991-F1yrx0
    YargJay9991-F1yrx0Author
    Participant
    November 7, 2019

    Oh great! That's handy info. Thanks. I really do want to get SSDs all around, but with it being a work computer, it's a little trickier 😛 

     

    I'll definitely have a look at the Speed Disk software, that will be interesting!

     

    Anyone got any ideas about splitting files etc? 🙂

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