Looking to setup a PC for Adobe Premiere Pro Work!

[Alex Gerulaitis]

Consider Intel CPUs: AMD is great, just not too great for Premiere Pro.

Consider 32GB RAM if you plan to use Premiere Pro and After Effects simultaneously (e.g. dynamic linking).

Which drive do you plan to use as the main media volume – the SSD? The most common setup is: SSD for OS and apps, two or three 7200rpm drives in RAID0 for media; optionally a 3rd drive for exports.

(There is a persistent view out there that dedicating a drive to media cache, scratch file, media cache database improves performance. I haven’t seen any evidence of that. In fact, dedicating a drive to exports seems a waste of space and resources given that exports are usually low bandwidth flat files.)

Follow Videoguys DIY9 and 9.5 builds if you want to do it yourself.

If you prefer to buy a turnkey – check out this post.

Cheers.

Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA

[Soumendra Jena]

That 9.5 build looks seriously strong.

Im in India and all those gets around 3500 USD. Anyways, I have to get this.

[Walter Soyka]

[Alex Gerulaitis] “(There is a persistent view out there that dedicating a drive to media cache, scratch file, media cache database improves performance. I haven’t seen any evidence of that. In fact, dedicating a drive to exports seems a waste of space and resources given that exports are usually low bandwidth flat files.)”

Agreed for Premiere.

A lot of these recent posts about disk setup have been for both Pr and Ae, though, and those apps generally use disks very differently. Ae’s cache reads/writes loads of uncompressed image sequences; it benefits from a fast, dedicated drive for its cache, like an SSD.

For Ae, I could see that a separate drive for exports might be useful if you’re doing really disk-intensive compositing (like multiple 3D passes) and writing huge image sequences — but I think most folks in this situation would be better served with a single RAID5 than stacks of separate single drives.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Soumendra Jena]

Im thinking to order this for storage,

https://www.flipkart.com/wd-caviar-green-3-tb-desktop-internal-hard-drive-wd30ezrx/p/itmd7cgyf3ttkvpy

And for SSD, this one,

https://www.flipkart.com/corsair-neutron-gtx-series-240-gb-ssd-internal-hard-drive-cssd-n240gbgtx-bk/p/itmdcvuvtsfahsz5

Okay ?

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Soumendra Jena] “Im thinking to order this for storage”

OK for backup and exports, not so good as the main media drive – a little slow. Consider a 7200rpm Caviar Blue or Black.

[Vinod Pan]

Just don’t buy those WD intelli powered HDD. I bought one by mistake and didn’t live up to my expectation. I would prefer WD 72K Black Cavier drives. They are bit expensive in India but they are the one’s to go for.

Here is my set up.
i7-930/12GB RAM GSKILL/GA-X58A-UD7 MOBO.
HDD1-WD 72K Black edition-OS and Apps
HDD2-WD 72K Black edition-Media chache/Scratch/Source Footage
HDD3-WD 72K Black edition-All Exports.
HDD4-WD 54K Green Drive-Saving completed projects and misc files/backup etc.

Videoguys have a set up with latest processors and that is good.

Regards
Vinod

[Soumendra Jena]

Do you mean the SSD choice is bad or the HDD ?

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Soumendra Jena] “Do you mean the SSD choice is bad or the HDD ?”

The HDD – WD Caviar Green.

[Vinod Pan]

Hello,

SSD is better than HDD.

I am talking about WD green drives which are intelli powered. Not suitable for video editing. They are just for storage.

Regards
Vinod

i7-930/GTX 285 (Zotac 1GB)
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 (Rev 1.0)/Ram – GSkill 12 GB
Win 7 64 bit Ultimate
HDD1-OS & APS(72K rpm)
HDD2-Rendering/Transcoding (72K rpm)
HDD3-Import assets (72K rpm)

[Soumendra Jena]

Hi Vinod,
Can you post the full product name ?

Where did you get it from and whats the price ?