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  M.2 (NVMe) or SATA 3 SSD For Video Editing (After Effects & Premiere Pro)?

  Posted by Abdu Llah on November 23, 2018 at 1:05 am

  So I want to upgrade my build a bit from the storage side

  And since I love to edit a lot, I’m planning for buying 3 separate SSDs

  1st for the system and main programs/apps

  2nd SSD is going to be for project saves / project files, and I might store any downloads (maybe some games?) or movies in it

  3rd SSD (which all of this about) is going to be a caching SSD, all of my work on After Effects and Premiere Pro will be cached on in it

  So my question is:
  I want the best option for each SSD type I should get, for me, I choose normal SATA 3 SSD for the 2nd (maybe also 1st),

  But most importantly is what should I get for the caching drive, should I get normal data 3 SSD or M.2 NVMe? and would I get any noticeable performance or I should save my money and buy a SATA 3?

  all of them are going to be 256GB each (2nd SSD might be higher since it’s like a storage) and I was thinking can I just buy a 500GB and separate it to 250GB drives, is it a good idea? would it perform as a sperate drive?

  And I would love it to be cheaper (I’m kind of limited on my budget) so the cheaper the better, but if the M.2s are faster then i would go with those

  Thank you 🙂

  uWu

  Andrew Somers replied 7 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Andrew Somers

  November 23, 2018 at 6:03 am

  What you want is a PCI SSD card. Get a 1 TB PCI SSD card, and there is no need to partition it.

  Andrew Somers
  VFX & Title Supervisor
  https://www.GeneralTitles.com

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