Upgrade Graphics Card

[Jeff Pulera]

For external desktop video drives, look at brands that are meant for media work such as Glyph, G-Technology and LaCie. They do have fast, single 7200rpm drives available at a decent price. If the budget is really tight, these are certainly better than trying to use the C: drive (never recommended).

What kind of 4k are you dealing with? It might be just 100mbps, or could be ProRes or similar format that going to create much, much larger files and the higher data rate of such files will require faster drives to keep up (RAID as Andy said).

A RAID is not a bad idea anyway regardless of footage being edited – faster drives never hurt anyone! At a minimum, look for a 2-drive RAID 0 setup. The data is not protected, but 2 drives working together are much faster than a single drive. For instance, G-Tech G-RAID, Glyph Studio RAID, and LaCie 2big units.

There are also 4-drive RAID units which are faster yet, and most of them will then also offer RAID 5 mode, which does offer protection in the event of a single drive failure.

And you have to consider the interface. If your PC is a few years old, then most likely looking at using USB 3.0. Many newer drives have Thunderbolt 3 now, but that won’t apply to you. But a USB-C interface will work since it is also compatible with USB 3.0 ports (they will will include a cable for that).

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Manish Choudhary]

Here is the article from PUGET SYSTEMS about Hard drive setup for adobe prpro.
they tell in detail about setup of drives really helpfull to everyone and me too.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Premiere-Pro-CC-2015-4-Storage-Optimization-854/