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editing from an SSD or hybrid drive
I bought a Seagate Momentous XT Hybrid drive to edit from as a second drive in my Macbook Pro. The read speeds were great (150 MB/s +) but the write speeds were so slow that it would not even copy a video file to it.
Seagate support advised that SSD are not meant for video editing due to the frequent I/O… He said it would wear out the cells quickly, eventhough they are faster, they are meant for system drives. Do I take his word for it, or have you editing folk had some different experiences. And if so, what would the recommendation be for an editing drive inside of the Macbook Pro (instead of the DVD drive)
Thank you,
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Do not use an SSD for media. It’s great as a boot/program drive. The hybrid drive isn’t much use these days as SSD prices are coming down and I have heard reports of problems with them. Your second drive bay can hold all of your documents, encodes and whatever
I recommend external RAID 0 drives (FW 800, USB 3 or Thunderbolt) for editing media. One raid array per project and one regular backup drive for media
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whats wrong with using a SSD as a media drive?
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@Sunny: That is what I’m asking…
To me that is where the future is heading, but the tech at Seagate said that if you use SSD (or a hybrid) for media in video editing, it will wear them out sooner because of too much reading and writing??
This all started because I could not even write any video files to this hybrid drive.
But now it’s also given me error messages trying to clone the system drive in the laptop, so it’s probable just the hard drive, or the connection with the caddy that I had to use when I replaced the DVD drive in the MacBook Pro… -
AFAIK the wear issue is due writing, not reading and manufacturers claim their drives will last about 10 years anyway.
I don’t see any issue in storing media in an SSD. Once you capture/copy the material, you don’t rewrite it. It might apply to render files, though, but IMHO, it’s not much of an issue, or so most manufacturers say.
The issue I think is the high cost per gigabyte of ssds against a raid of conventional hard drives.
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