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November 11, 2023
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Which drive best used for media cache, Gen4 m.2 vs sata ssd C drive.

  • November 11, 2023
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So I have two choices for media cache folder both with tradeoffs.
I can dedicated an entire Samsung Evo Sata SSD with the slower speeds of

540 MB/s Sequential Read AND 520 MB/s Sequential Write, with nothing else using that drive.

 -OR-

I can choose a gen 4 nvme m.2 with 2100mb read and 1700 write, the tradeoff here is this is also my C drive, with the Adobe apps installed to this drive.

Which would be the best choice?

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Peru Bob
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 11, 2023

Moved to the Video Hardware forum.

R Neil Haugen
Legend
November 11, 2023

Does your motherboard accept two Nvme drives? As if so, the second Nvme should be the cache drive... and only the cache drive.

 

Premiere heavily uses the cache drive as essentially additional RAM.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...