Editing 4K video with a RAID0?

Question

Using a Mac, I'm thinking of setting up a RAID0 enclosure to edit 4K video.

1. Will two drives configured for RAID0 make any difference in speed when editing 4K? If so, where/what types of things will the improvement be noticable?

2. Can two SSD drives be used in a RAID0 configuration? Will this result in improved performance when editing 4K Vs. two hard drives in RAID0?

Thank you.

Bill Gehrke · Accepted Answer

1. Is there a performance reason for putting the project fils on a separate drive from the media?

2. I was unaware that RAID0 means that if you loose one of the two drives you lose all the data on both. Thanks for the info.

southwestform wrote
1. Is there a performance reason for putting the project files on a separate drive from the media?

I doubt it, especially with our XAVC-S media, I have not found any advantage in separating the two since I started using SATA III SSD's, in the old days on hard disk drives that was a different story but since we have gone from 10's of milliseconds to SSD's microseconds on the latency it really does not seem to be necessary. If you do put them in another place it just is then another bookkeeping item to save everything together.

RoninEdits · Answer

raid-0 will mostly increase max transfer rates. if you are working with very high bitrate media, or multiple layers or multi-cam, the extra speed could help keep playback smoother vs a slow disk. ssd's can be used in raid, and would offer even higher transfer speeds. ssd's can also help some with seeking/scrubbing as they have lower latency than spinning disk drives. the cpu does most of the work for premiere, so the disk drives just need to be fast enough not to be a bottleneck.

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