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PhantomMotionFilms
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February 18, 2017
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Best SSD setup for video editing?

  • February 18, 2017
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hello,

i just recently purchased a dell xps 15 laptop and I'm getting into video editing. It has a 1TB hard drive and 32GB RAM.

someone told me I should get an external SSD(Samsung T3) to do all my photo and video editing on.....?

And I'd then another hard drive to store all of my finished projects on....?

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    RoninEdits
    RoninEdits
    Inspiring
    February 18, 2017

    hopefully your laptop came with a ssd for the os/apps to use... yes, you can use an external usb 3.0 ssd as you describe, then to save space archive them to a hdd or other safe storage solution. if you don't want an external drive, you would have to see if you could add or upgrade the storage inside the laptop.

    PhantomMotionFilms
    PhantomMotionFilmsAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    February 18, 2017

    Yes it came with a really fast 1TB SSD. Do I use the same external SSD for storing the cache.....?

    J
    JFPhoton
    Inspiring
    February 20, 2017

    not generally, proxies or rendered previews could start to add up. you can delete the cache after each project is finished if you want.


    Does your laptop have an additional internal drive bay for another drive ? If so, you can save a lot of space on that 1TB NVMe drive.

    Bill has found with testing that there is NO reduction in performance when the PPro "media cache" and "cache" files are left in their default location , on the boot drive. So, provided you have some other additional HDD bay in your machine, you could install a Samsung 850 Pro SATA III SSD and make it the boot drive with only the OS, programs, Windows page file on it. As Bill has said, once the OS and any program are loaded, they are now "memory resident" in the system memory, so the boot drive speed becomes almost irrelevant, except for many small writes and reads by the page file and other small operations. Those PPro cache files can thus stay in the default location and are easily erased when a project is complete. PPro will automatically recreate them if ever needed again.

        Having all other files on the NVMe PCI SSD will provide the fastest performance with PPro, ( i.e. media, project, , and exports).

    Some type of large external drive would be recommended for use as an archive of completed projects, for original media, and for general backups.

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