I know this may get some heat …

[Brett Sherman]

Intel Optane gets its performance boost from cacheing commonly used files. It’s great for office tasks. Buts for video editing it doesn’t speed things up since you don’t hit the same data over and over again (usually). It’s sort of like the Fusion drive for Macs. That didn’t do squat for video editing.

From PC Magazine, “If you have the budget for a tricked-out gaming rig or high-end workstation and plan to use them for specialized workflows like 4K video editing, a cutting-edge conventional SSD would be a better choice.”

[Bernard Newnham]

Yes. Having done the research now, I know lots more about Optane, M2, and NVMe.

I have another laptop running Linux Lubuntu, and my main desktop, just re-motherboarded, both with standard SSDs as boot drives. I shall probably buy an SSD for the new laptop, and M2 NVMe for the desktop. I don’t need to use 4k video – I could run the classes I teach now in SD – but I do want to run fairly complex things in DaVinci.

Also – what the hell – I want to find out how well NVMe works, and a WD Blue NVMe 500GB SSD is only £70.

I seem to have gone off-topic Mac-wise, but then I’ve done that in real life too.

Bernie

[Rich Rubasch]

I have also noticed that SSD 2.5″ drives are going for about 1/2 price…not sure what changed but they have come way down….time to look at SSD RAID configs!

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com

[Jeremy Garchow]

[John Pale] “I don’t see any 4TB NVME chips available commercially.”

I was given a set of these with 4x2TB chips to do some Red offloads for a recent shoot. Massive speeds. NVMe is pretty wicked:

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/TB3EX4M2SL/

[Brett Sherman]

[Rich Rubasch] “I have also noticed that SSD 2.5″ drives are going for about 1/2 price…not sure what changed but they have come way down….time to look at SSD RAID configs!”

The pricing has been weird. SSDs have been artificially high for a long time. Some say demand from mobile phones kept the supply of memory short and that people aren’t replacing phones as quickly now. But that doesn’t explain it all. It has much further to drop.

[Eric Santiago]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I was given a set of these with 4x2TB chips to do some Red offloads for a recent shoot. Massive speeds. NVMe is pretty wicked”

Jeremy with the RED Mag Reader being USB3, do you really get the advantage with the NVMe?
What interface were you using on both ends?
I have this dilemma with current film shot with Helium, where no matter what USB3 drive, were not getting the speeds we hoped for.

[Tom Sefton]

Eric have you seen the new dual mag reader from sonnet that is thunderbolt 3? I can’t import one to the UK as yet, but they look great….

Co-owner at Pollen Studio
http://www.pollenstudio.co.uk

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Eric Santiago] “Jeremy with the RED Mag Reader being USB3, do you really get the advantage with the NVMe?”

No question.

I can’t remember the exact difference but the 128GB card went from like 45 minutes to 12 minutes, same card reader, all that was different were the drives (HDD drives vs NVMe).

Jeremy