DRIVE SPEED FOR EDITING

[Jeremy Garchow]

I don’t think anyone said as fast as possible. You asked about NVMe.

Get yourself a single hard drive. It seems like it’s all you want to spend. It won’t work well, but at least you know the bandwidth won’t be wasted!

And yes, writing raw data from sensor is going to be different than playing back raw footage from disk in resolve. It’s a completely different process.

A three drive raid-0 hard disk array would be the least amount of kit I’d recommend with reservations. A five drive raid5 wound be better. And driving a Ferrari to get the groceries is purely sublime. You should try it!

[David Council]

Thanks for a very entertaining response Jeremy. I’ve read it carefully:
“I don’t think anyone said as fast as possible.”
You yourself said “faster is better”
Jim said “buy a lot more computer than you think you’ll need”
“You asked about NVMe.”
No. I asked about general drive speed, and used the insane speeds of NVme as an example
“Get yourself a single hard drive. It seems like it’s all you want to spend.
I said “I’m happy to invest in something like the OWC Accelsior
“And yes, writing raw data from sensor is going to be different than playing back raw footage from disk in resolve. It’s a completely different process.”
I didn’t say they were the same process, I questioned if they need different drive bandwidth. I didn’t see you answer that question. Can you?
“A three drive raid-0 hard disk array would be the least amount of kit I’d recommend with reservations. A five drive raid5 wound be better.”
“faster is better” (That’s what you said, isn’t it?) Why use raid 5 over raid 0? I’m aware how they both work, which is why I didn’t ask for anyone’s opinion on the comparative merits of different raid configurations. Or expect a recommendation to use a slower array when “faster is better”.
There seems to be quite a lot of – how can I put this – overcompensation – with fast drives and fast cars here ….
Enjoy your trip to the shops! Your imaginary Ferrari is making me very jealous ….

[Tero Ahlfors]

There aren’t a lot of formats that would straight up require insane speeds to smoothly run them in realtime. Those are usually needed if the workflow requires working on high resolution DPX/TIFF/EXR image sequences where the bitrate for just playing something back would be 2 GB/s or more. Or if one is setting up a NAS that has a lot of users editing footage from one location at the same time.

Most camera footage isn’t really that heavy so the bang for the buck/storage size option would be an HDD RAID that has a sufficiently fast connection on it. Like thunderbolt 3 or an internal RAID if the computer case is big enough.

[David Council]

Hey Tero, thanks for your sensible response. That’s kind of what I’m looking at. Thanks for making time to think about it.

DC