Laptop and drive setup

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February 26, 2018
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Hello,

I have am looking into purchasing a laptop for editing and wondering what my hard drive setup should be.

I am looking into purchasing an external SSD usb c drive and wondering if I can fit both my scratch files such as render previews etc as well as my projects and media or if I need another drive for that?

the laptops I'm looking into have 1 USBC/Thunderbolt port and up to three usb 3.0 ports.

I'm not too sure how fast usb 3.0 really is and if that can efficiently playback render files. I'm used to a PC with all my drives plugged in internally.

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Peru Bob

Community Expert

Moved to the Hardware Forum where the hardware experts are.

Peru Bob

Community Expert

Perhaps Bill Gehrke could help out here.

Bill Gehrke

Inspiring

You have not given us a enough configuration info. I would strongly suggest that you clone your internal hard disk drive to a SATA III SSD and then swap it out for the internal hard disk drive,if that is what you have.. That was my first step with this ASUS laptop about 3-4 years ago. Then get yourself a good USB 3. portable SSD like a Samsung T5 and use that for your Project and Media files. Here is the performance of a Samsung USB 3.1 on my desktop which only has USB 3.0 but I acquired a Startech USB 3.1 add in card to test it to its maximums. What you want to look at is the Sequential read/write rates that are necessary for video editing.

My Premiere Pro BenchMark actually writes from Premiere at 458 MB/second to this device, about 3 or more time faster than harddisk dribe. Remember, not all USB 3.1 devices are this capable..

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