Which of these hard drive combos would be best for PP?

[bruceb52364485]

Hello all,

I will be buying a new computer system which will be more Premiere Pro friendly.  The two systems are identical with the exception of their hard drive configuration.  The systems consist of:

Intel i9 9900K, 3.60GHz to 5.0GHz

32GB Ram DDR4 2666 MHz

GeForce RTX 2080 8GB

The hard drive options:

2TB 7200 PRM + 256GB PCle SSD    OR    1TB 7200 RPM + 512GB PCle SSD

Which one of these hard drives would be better for Premiere Pro?

Thanks for any input you can provide

Bruce

[Peru Bob]

I've moved this to the Hardware forum.

[Peru Bob · Accepted solution]

Neither one.

With a high end system like that, get two fast SSDs: 256 or larger for the OS and 1 TB or larger for media and cache.

[Guest]

You can fit the OS on 256GB, you'll want more media space. 

Go for the first option

[bruceb52364485]

Thanks to both of you for your input.  After researching a bit further I've decided to go with a custom build with 2 Samsung 970 Pro M.2 SSDs and I may opt for a 3rd (to store media cache and scratch).  I will stick with the i9 9900K but will increase RAM to 64GB. 

This is more than I wanted to spend but the system will be expandable so it should serve me well for years.  The system will be built by Puget Systems.

Thanks again!

Bruce

[John T Smith]

I agree that 256Gig is plenty large enough for operating system and programs... I am only using 90Gig of my 256Gig boot drive for Win10 and all programs, plus the default location for MS Office files on the boot drive

I do have my Adobe temp files on a different drive https://community.adobe.com/t5/Premiere-Pro/How-do-I-stop-filling-up-my-SDD-drive-during-outputs/td-...
-and https://community.adobe.com/t5/Premiere-Pro/FAQ-How-to-clean-delete-or-trash-media-cache-files/td-p/...

[bruceb52364485]

John - Thank you for the info and links.  I will look at the links tonight.  My current configuration (not ordered yet pending a discussion with Jared of Puget Systems) has  512GB and a 1TB M.2 SSDs and if I go with a third, which I believe I will, it will likely be 1TB (SSD) as well.

My current laptop is an i5 4200 RPM with 8GB of RAM... you can imagine what happened when I tried to edit 4K footage (even with proxies!)...omg....not good.  The new system should make for a more pleasurable PP experience...   🙂

[Guest]

If you've got the budget for it, go for it! You could probably save a bit by using spinning disks as media drives, but then it won't have that smooth buttery editing experience that you'll enjoy with SSDs

[bruceb52364485]

Thanks JPooley_H

I agree - so I will stick with the SSDs.  Now is the time to do it.

I appreciate your input.

[Ann Bens]

256 gig is more then enough for OS and software:

First I always do is move Document to a different drive as well as the Adobe temp files.