John is correct, get people to custom design your computer that know video editing. It is perfectly adequate to have a great video editing computer with a 250 GB SSD boot drive for your OS and Applications What you might want to do is get one or more Samsung T5 portable SSD USB 3.1 drives.  These SSD's allow you to be very flexible in what media and projects you carry with you.  I use them regularly by have all the project files and media   on one of these devices I can go from editing on the laptop (in my easy chair) to my desktop in seconds, and vice-versa. They are available up to 2 TB.  Here look at the Sequential Read/Write transfer rates for video editing: These sequential read/write rates as good as the SATA III SSD rates. If you tune that HP you might get a lot better performance, get rid of all unnecessary processes and programs that steal CPU cycles and use memory.  Turn off indexing on you drives.  If you want to test that computer with an Adobe Premiere Pro BenchMark to see how well it is tuned.  When you finish Submit according to the web page instructions and I will try to give you feedback ... View more

Well here is the way I would set up those components. Intel 330 for the OS/Applications Samsung 960 EVO for Projects, Media and exports. Break the RAID and use the two hard disk drives Independently Using the 960 EVO for the OS/Applications is a waste of this very high speed SSD because after booting up Premiere Pro runs at memory speed, use it for your Project files and media Leave the Adobe default location for the Media Cache, Media Cache Files folders on the boot drive, SATA III at 6 Gbits/second is fast enough.unless you are producing feature length productions. Get rid of the RAID 0 which has no redundancy and use the two drives independently for your backup and archiving When you finish a project move it, the media and exports to the hard disk drives to make room for the next project. This is a minimum setup solution,  All new projects and media go to the Samsung. No moving of files for This is what I use on my laptop and desktop... ... View more

fedes_gl  wrote You can also consider Asus ROG. I bought one last year with similar specs than that Dell, and also following Bill's advices. The only fact I consider having optical drive is not because you need it but I find good to replace it with a caddy to put the HDD there (so you can keep the big storage capacity) and at the same time add a SATA III SDD for performance (as Bill stays in point 2) I do have an ASUS ROG and love it and would prefer it to a Dell. Be careful on pulling the optical disk because in many cases it is only a SATA II port ... View more

If you could supply more details on your SSD's it would help  Just saying M.2 or Intel does not give us specific details so we can best help you. ... View more

Test your computer with my Adobe Premiere Pro BenchMark (PPBM) and submit the results ... View more

If even after rendering you cannot play back footage I am guessing that your media and the rendered files are probably on the single 1TB hard disk drive.  How full is that drive?  IS it on a SATA II or a SATA III port? ... View more

Well there are lots of many, many different models of the Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming laptops but with your price point you will have to make some concessions  .  Here is a good starting point that will work somewhat but you can easily add the missing items later if you need improvements DELL Inspiron 15 i5577-7342BLK 15.6" Intel Core i7 7th Gen 7700HQ (2.80 GHz) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 16 GB Memory 512 GB PCIe SSD Windows 10 Home 64-Bit Gaming Laptop .  Any good AE computer needs lots of memory and this unit will take 32 GB for your future expansion,  The CPU was chosen for the 3.8GHz Turbo speed Also even though this computer has a 512GB SSD boot drive you really need two storage devices for Adobe editing software.  This model has an internal SATA III port so you can either add one right now or buy a good USB 3 portable SSD like a Samsung T5 drive like I use And of course it has a CUDA drive for those items that can be GPU Accelerated,  Wish I could get a GTX 1060 6 GB GPU but that was a budget buster. Any OEM computer has a lot of garbage processes and programs that automatically start when you boot up.  So tune this computer so you can get maximum CPU power for your editing.  When you get this and want to check how well it is setup I have a Premiere Pro BenchMark (PPBM) which can test CPU, GPU and storage so you can get maximum Performance ... View more

That GPU is 10 years old and I doubt it is supported any longer.  I could not find anything in my look at nVidia drivers ... View more

Thanks much so for Adobe Premiere with the right settings it get a green light, hope that stays that way whem we get your results with the PPBM testing. ... View more

It is had to  recommend a specific model number but tak a look at this EVGA page on 750 Watt  power supplies and find a GOLD power supply for better regulation/performance ... View more

Here i am Peru Bob! You definitely need a second SSD. Use a SATA III SSD for your OS/Applications and use your Samsung 960 EVO for your current project and media.  Once you complete the project move it and the associated media to you hard disk drive to make way for your next project. Do not go cheapie on the power supply, that is only rated bronze, go for a gold rated power supply Immediately turn off the Asus LED lighting on that Motherboard, it just steals CPU cycles and do a tuning job to get rid of every other unneeded process/program. Go to my CPU PPBM test results and find the CPU test score for that Ryzen 7 1700 (253 seconds).  When you test your new computer with PPBM see what you get for that test. If you are money limited you could drop back from your GTX 1070 to a GTX 1060 6 GB to afford the above changes. ... View more

Well that is exactly what you would want to see. You stated above that ""Of interest in SB2 both GPUs are being used and I've not been able to disable Intel's GPU" Is this still the case, that you did not have to disable the Intel GPU but that Premiere automatically did it for you? ... View more

Go to your Cortana and type in cmd Enter and you should get a CMD window that stays up Here is a Google technique "One of the quickest ways to launch the Command Prompt, in any modern version of Windows, is to use the Run window. A fast way to launch this window is to press the Win + R keys on your keyboard. Then, type cmd or cmd.exe and press Enter or click/tap OK" ... View more

I like this positive news. Sure would like to see your GPRSniffer output on those Surface Book 2 units.  I tried to get access to a demo unit to try it out but no luck.locally. ... View more

CC268  wrote Thanks for the help. I think I will start out with the 1TB 860 EVO and then maybe upgrade my 1TB hard drive to the 6TB Seagate Barracuda. To answer your questions: 1. No I have kept both the h.264 files and the transcoded Cineform YUV 10 bit files. Oh, and I did Cineform proxies too. So some of it is unnecessary. Should I delete the original h.264 files? 2. I haven't touched the media and media cache files. I guess I should be deleting those? Some questions for you: 1. So I should keep the Projects, Media, Cache, and Scratch on the 1TB HD? 2. Should I upgrade to the 6GB Barracuda HDD or just buy like an external hard drive to keep archived projects on? Thanks. I would never delete your original files but just archive them. Go ahead and delete them because you may have lots of no longer needed unused files.When you reopen the project note the size of those project files.  In my typical projects leave the Media Cache and Media Cache Files folders in the default location in the Users folder on this two SATA III SSD laptop Questions No, you are limited on your storage space so put only the Project Files and the Media on you largest SSD,  It is the way I do on my laptop.  I also have an an alternative editing procedure I also use a very high speed portable USB 3 SSD like a Samsung T5.  This allow my to be editing on my laptop disconnect the T5 and walk over to my desktop plug it in and keep editing or do my exporting.  Below you will see the T5 performance I would think you are going to need more archive space before long so the external device might be a better plan. ... View more

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I would check two things Does that 690 GB include both the original media and the transcoded media?  After transcoding you could archive the original. Media, and Nedia Cache is generally much smaller than the media itself.  Do you keep deleting the Media and Media Csche files? I like Randall's suggestion of just going to one 1TB SATA III for your projects and media ... View more

CC268  wrote What are your thoughts on a normal SSD vs. the M.2 SSD? Also if I go with the M.2 SSD would it be alright if I went with the 860 EVO M.2 500GB instead of the 960 EVO M.2 500GB? Saves me a little cash. I might just go for the 960 though. Absolutely not!  The 860 EVO Is a SATA III @ 6 Gb/s device where the 960 EVO is a PCIe Gen 3 x4  32 Gbit/s SSD. Here is what you will get from a PCIE Gen 3 x4 960 EVO and the important test vto look for are the Sequential ratings: Here is typicall what you would get from your 860 EVO (I do not have one to test): Notice on the picture below the killer word SATA, Just because it says M.2 does not mean high speed' ... View more

Here is my laptop Adobe Program file it is 19.4 GB ... View more

Great plan.  I have not found a third SSD necessary unless you have 100+ clips that timeline. ... View more

That 500 GB Hard drivrewith 400 GB on it has a read access time of about 25 milliseconds which in video editing is a terrible amonut of time when you switch from reading to writing which you are doing.  What problems prevented you from cloning the OS to the SSD?  It sounds like you had 400 GB of OS/application that you tried to clone to a 256 GB SSD which of course is impossible.  Move all the extra garbage from the Toshiba to one of those external drives.  Try to get down to no more than 128 GB.  Then clone the OS/Applications to the SSD. which has microsecond access time.  Then to really fix your system is add ono more SSD for all current project and media storage and when you finish a project move it off-line ... View more

Your 850 EVO is a SATA III SSD and having your OS/Applications plus your project files is asking too much from that SSD.  You desperately need a good starage SSD.  Your motherboard readily supports another SATA III 6Gb/s device or a real super solution would be a M.2 PCIe Gen 3 x4 SSD, or a third solution is to use your USB 3.1 port with something like a Samsung T5 250 GB portable SSD. ... View more

If you would like to measure your CPU performance using Premiere Pro you can download, unzip, run and submit my Premiere Pro BenchMark (PPBM).  In the Output.csv results file the last number from the four tests will show us your CPU performance.  Then looking at the CPU web page on that site a well-tuned i7-7700 scored 485 seconds for that 4-core Turbo boost 4.2 GHz clock speed. If you run the test we will also be able to comment on your GPU and storage system. ... View more

Your link does not work for me.  Ideally you should have two SATA III SSD's for editing unless your one SSD is is the super speed PCIe Gen 3 x4 variety.  When you are finished efiting then move to a hard disk drive.  A lot depends on your media and the size of your projects ... View more

Any time you buy a big nme OEM computer it generally comes with al sorts of "garbage programs set to run on startup..  Tune that guy to get rid of any unecessary programs from running while you are editing.  A good place to start with is in Task Manager/Startup is to disable almost everyone of those items.  If they are needed later they will automatically start.  Do you only have that one SSD for storage and have you turned off indexing? ... View more

If you want to see a good collection of Cinebench multicore testing look at this Puget Systems Cinebench R15 data. for many different CPU's including the Treadripper 1950X.  Actually they were kind enough to add a few other high-end Intel CPU's for me that were not on the list. On my PPBM CPU intensive test my current list is not up to date with a much better score of 140 seconds for the 1950X.  So I went to the Speccy data on that great result and here is the motherboard "X399 AORUS Gaming 7 (SP3r2)". I guess I will have to check out a few details and update my chart ... View more

Trying to run everything off one SSD might be the problem.  I would try using a very high speed USB 3 portable SSD like a Samsung T5 SSD and put all your project files and media on the USB 3 drive   That is my workflow on my PC Laptop. ... View more