Editing VP12 – Advice regarding RAM (1600Mhz OR 1866Mhz) and SSD + (HD OR hybrid SSHD)

[John Rofrano]

Good Luck and Congratulations on your new computer. It’s always fun to get a new computer. 😉

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Stephen Mann]

By the way, does anyone know a software which provides details about installed hardware?

I use Belarc Advisor – the free version tells you more about your PC, the installed software, the Windows updates and your network than you ever thought you should know.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Dave Haynie]

The hybrid 7200rpm drive is still a 7200rpm drive… just pointing out that the “hybrid” SSD part isn’t terribly useful for a data drive, since it’s never large enough for media files. I first bought a hybrid drive for the PC I built for my son two years ago, and there was a premium for those… and SSDs were kind of out of sight. Last summer, I built myself a new PC, and included a 960GB SSD… prices have been dropping. The 750GB hybrid in my office PC wasn’t much of a difference in cost over a plain HDD, and for a C: drive it’s quite nice.

Anyway, you want the 7200 over the 5400, no contest there.

-Dave

[Scott Francis]

PC wizard is what I use…

https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/pc-wizard.html

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Carlos Silva]

Hi!

a) Instead of an internal 7200 RPM HD, would an external drive 7200 RPM USB 3.0 work as goog as for video editing?

b) By the way, does the 7200 RPM makes great difference over 4800 RPM throughout all the video production, or is it more related to just some parts of the process as rendering?

Many thanks,
Carlos

[John Rofrano]

[Carlos Silva] “a) Instead of an internal 7200 RPM HD, would an external drive 7200 RPM USB 3.0 work as goog as for video editing?”

Yes, external USB 3.0 7200RPM drives work great for video editing.

[Carlos Silva] “b) By the way, does the 7200 RPM makes great difference over 4800 RPM throughout all the video production, or is it more related to just some parts of the process as rendering?”

Faster drives affect everything especially playback which you do constantly. You will get an overall performance boost because the video files are read from the drive so depending on how many files you’re asking the drive to serve up at once, it can be quite a difference. Rendering isn’t affected as much because rendering is rarely I/O bound… it’s usually the CPU/GPU that is the bottleneck.

~jr

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