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jaydub2222
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December 3, 2016
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Where to Place Preview/Exports & Media Cache

  • December 3, 2016
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I'm building a new PC for video editing and I am considering this arrangement for storage:

Samsung 960 PRO NVME M.2 512GB:  O/S and Programs

Samsung 850 PRO SATA 2TB:  Data, Media/Projects

Western Digital Red Pro 7200 HDD 8TB: Mass Storage and Previews/Exports

Western Digital Red Pro 7200 HDD 8TB: Backup and Media Cache

Or would I be better off with Previews/Exports and Media Cache placed on the 850 PRO along with Media/Projects?

During the Golden Days of HDD's, we usually split these off onto separate drives.  But with SSD's, I'm not so sure.   Can the SSD really handle all those tasks better?

Remaining components are 32GB RAM, I7-7700K CPU, Z270 Motherboard, GTX-1080 GPU, Enermax 750 Platinum PSU.

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    JEShort01
    Inspiring
    December 3, 2016

    Yes, SSDs are really quite a bit better. You'll be best off to put all the cache, scratch, and previews on the 960 Pro boot drive which is by far the fastest drive. And I would think that 512GB would be enough to handle all these files in addition to your OS and programs.

    You can pretty much send the exports wherever you'd like.

    Regards,

    Jim

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    jaydub2222Author
    Participant
    December 3, 2016

    OK, thanks.  If I can have only one PCI-e based SSD in my system, would it make more sense to use a smaller SATA drive for the O/S and programs exclusively and increase the size of the NVME SSD, as follows:

    Samsung 850 PRO SATA 512GB:  O/S and Programs

    Samsung 960 PRO NVME M.2 1TB:  Data, Media/Projects, Cache, Previews

    Western Digital Red Pro 7200 HDD 8TB: Mass Storage and Exports

    Western Digital Red Pro 7200 HDD 8TB: Backup

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    JEShort01
    Inspiring
    December 3, 2016

    yes, exactly!

    Jim

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