• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Raid drive with USB

  Posted by Sam Mayfield on September 30, 2016 at 4:07 pm

  I shoot with a 4K camera and edit in Premiere. I recently purchased a WD MyBook hard drive for storing and working with video assets. I realized when it arrived that it is USB3 not Thunderbolt.
  Can someone tell me if this drive is going to be significantly slower than a harddrive with Thunderbolt?
  Thank you!

  Tim Jones replied 9 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Tim Jones

  September 30, 2016 at 5:05 pm

  Actually, it won’t be slower, because a Thunderbolt version of that drive wouldn’t be faster. A 1 or 2 spindle solution (depending on which MyBook you purchased) is only going to hit 100MB/sec or 200MB/sec maximum regardless of the interface involved.

  To really see a performance difference with Thunderbolt or SAS over USB-3, you either need a solution with 4 drives (spindles) or with SSD drives.

  Tim
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  Tim Jones
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