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Adamvou
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January 27, 2017
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960 PRO For OS/APPS or Project Files?

  • January 27, 2017
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Hi folks,

I've been a reader a long time and here is my first post

After hours of searching I'm still not sure about this.

First, I am building new pc for editing and only thing I'm missing is harddrives.

I want to purchase samsung 960 pro 512 gb and I also need second SSD for ex. Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5" SSD, or you suggest other type?

960 Pro is fastest and there is different opinions on the internet what should be installed at this disk. OS and programs or media files like project files,cache, previwes,exports?

Can someone explain it to me, please?

Btw if it matters here is the rest of my setup:

  1. I7 6800K
  2. Asus ROG Strix x99 Gaming
  3. RAM Corsair Vengeance DDR4 32GB 2X16
  4. EVGA SuperNova 750W G2
  5. Asus GeForce GTX1080 ROG Strix
  6. NZXT Kraken X62
  7. Phanteks EVOLV tempered

Thank you!

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    Correct answer Bill Gehrke

    With my Premiere Pro BenchMark (PPBM) I have tested that.  The test drives were  a SATA III 840 Pro and a M.2 950 and two M.2 960 Pro.  I tested all combinations with the fastest  M.2 960 Pro always being used for the export drive, including having everything on the 512 GB M.2 960 Pro and could not find any real difference.  So I am going with a 950 Pro for OS/Applications and the 1TB M.2 960 for Projects.  I have many hard disk drives which I will plug-in to an external docking station like this:   StarTech SDOCKU33EF Black External docking station for 2.5in or 3.5in SATA III 6Gbps hard drives - eSATA or USB 3.0 with…

    So if you have a decent SATA III SSD use that for your boot drive as opposed to buying a new SSD

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    Bill Gehrke
    Bill GehrkeCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    January 27, 2017

    With my Premiere Pro BenchMark (PPBM) I have tested that.  The test drives were  a SATA III 840 Pro and a M.2 950 and two M.2 960 Pro.  I tested all combinations with the fastest  M.2 960 Pro always being used for the export drive, including having everything on the 512 GB M.2 960 Pro and could not find any real difference.  So I am going with a 950 Pro for OS/Applications and the 1TB M.2 960 for Projects.  I have many hard disk drives which I will plug-in to an external docking station like this:   StarTech SDOCKU33EF Black External docking station for 2.5in or 3.5in SATA III 6Gbps hard drives - eSATA or USB 3.0 with…

    So if you have a decent SATA III SSD use that for your boot drive as opposed to buying a new SSD

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    AdamvouAuthor
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    January 27, 2017

    Hi Bill, ok I get it, what about 960 EVO instead of pro?

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    AdamvouAuthor
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    January 29, 2017

    with the 28 lane cpu: from the manual it appears that the last x16 size slot (named pciex8_3) will split lanes with the first x16 size slot (pciex16/x8_1), so if your gpu is in the first slot and you put something in the very last slot, the gpu will drop from 16 to 8 lanes and the last slot will take the other 8 lanes. not many motherboards are able to split x8 down further to x4/x4, i don't see any listing of that in the manual. if you place something in the third x16 size slot (pciex16_2, second x16 slot with orange light in your picture above) it should have its own 8 lanes and leave the first slot alone at 16. so with a 28 lane cpu, you can have the gtx 1080 at x16, one m.2 ssd in its m.2 slot, and one free x16 size slot at 8 lanes for one other device, like a display i/o card, thunderbolt 3, raid card, second m.2, etc.

    there might be some performance loss if using x8 lanes with the gtx 1080. possibly 5-10%, it would depend on the software or game, but with premiere pro being cpu based its less likely you would see performance loss with premiere. if you will be adding enough hardware to drop the gtx 1080 to x8 and are worried about loosing some performance, then you have to decide if its worth the extra cost to upgrade to a 40 lane cpu and possibly the asus deluxe or WS motherboard to properly handle your hardware.

    i'm not sure why you are considering two m.2 drives, are you planning on using one for os/apps? you will be fine with a sata ssd for os/apps and then the m.2 ssd for cache/projects/media. a m.2 for os/apps won't actually help with application performance. if you need two for capacity, samsung sells up to 2tb size with the pro, but they are also very expensive. most projects do not need the m.2 speeds, they are just nice to avoid raid sata ssd, but raid sata ssd can be much cheaper when getting into large capacity media setups.


    Thank you so much for all that info Ronin, really appreciate. Yes I was thinking to use one of m.2 to os/apps as I thought it would increase program performance, but how I see it not worth that cost. I'll take sata ssd (samsung 850 pro 500gb should be a good option?) and one 1Tb 960 pro for projects/cache, still not sure about pro and evo, but if it a minimal with speed difference I would buy EVO.

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