What hardware upgrade on Asus Proart 16 2023?

[Devrim Akteke]

Hi,

It is always good to have a fast and big capacity internal SSD, this one has a speed of 8000MB and T7/T9 is 1000 and 2000MB, significantly lower but good enough. I have a Crucial X6 with 800MB speed, which works like a charm. External should be pretty enough, especially on the price-performance point.

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Jan,

I would maximise RAM.

If external, both T7 and T9 is great.
T9 is double the speed at 2,000 Mbps as Devrim pointed out.
Blackmagic Blackmagic PYXIS 6K page has a setup, where they are recording straight to the Samsung T7, although my preference would be the T9 (I’ve got several of both drives, and works well for post).
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicpyxis

For your internal expansion slot, you may want to consider a Samsung 990 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD with up to 7,450 / 6,900 MB/s sequential read/write speed.
You can also put this SSD in external enclosures.

Should add that I recently cancelled my Adobe Creative Cloud and moved to Davinci and Avid MC.

Davinci Studio has not crashed once for me, where Premiere Pro would do it frequently, daily sometimes just on opening the project.
That with the Adobe subscription, now with added pay-as-you-go-AI, and no Adobe Cloud for freelancers and SMEs as they closed that down. Adobe is no longer a friend of the community.

Just an opinion.

Atb
Mads

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Blackmagic PYXIS | Blackmagic Design

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[Jack Hicks]

Hi Jan,

Upgrading your RAM would be beneficial for handling large files in Creative Suite and 4K video editing in Premiere Pro and After Effects. Adding more RAM will allow smoother multitasking and faster rendering times.