Hard drive question… better to have OS & Premiere on SSD? Or Video files on SSD?

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Premiere and OS on SSD.

What kind of video footage are you editing? Are you using heavy Multi camera? Even a standard 7200 RPM drive can handle 1-2 streams of RED 4K footage. If you’re, say, using DPX or some other finishing format then you should step it up and look into a RAID system to improve the speed of standard hard disks.

Don’t bother with SSD for video storage, far too expensive.

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[Ericbowen]

The new 960GB Crucial drives are actually very affordable compared to what previous SSD drives have released at. I have a client’s system that is getting upgraded with 4 of them in raid 5 benching at 1.8GB/s to 3GB/s depending on the size of files used. That is far cheaper than a large mechanical SAS array that would give the same speed.

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