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Performance difference with rendered footage and scratch disk as separate disks?
I currently have my source footage, scratch disk, and rendered footage all residing on my internal hard drive, which is obviously not the ideal scenario. Thus, I’m planning on buying a USB 3 external SSD.
For the same price I can either buy two 500GB SSDs, or one 1TB SSD.
My source footage would remain on my internal hard drive, but the scratch disk and rendered footage would go on the external SSD(s). I can either have the scratch disk on one SSD and the rendered footage on another SSD, or have them both on one SSD. The two-drive combo would necessitate me buying a powered USB hub, as it’d tie up the remaining two ports on my iMac.
What would be the difference i might find in performance with these two set-ups?
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To clarify, I have a slow spinning 4TB drive for storage, and another 5TB drive to back up the first drive. I can get more storage drives as time goes on. The internal drive and SSDs aren’t really meant to be a permanent dumping ground but rather a place to keep unfinished projects.
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So it is not faster to render to an SSD as it is to 5400RPM drive? And it’s faster to have the media files on a 5400RPM drive than the internal 7200RPM drive?
I guess I’m trying to wrap my head around everything. Could you explain why this is so? 🙂
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