[John Gtz]

That’s what I was afraid of. Like I said, the video projects that I have worked on so far are rather small.

The first ones were all made in one 500GB HDD (with only about 300GB available aprox.) The editing part was not the problem, but rather the render part, and the playback when I would apply some small video corrections, like contrast and such.

After that, I cleaned up my HDD (400GB available aprox) and put the video footage on an external hard drive, but my old laptop only had usb 2.0. I did not see any big difference, nothing much since the render and corrections were about the same.

Now with a USB 3.0 port and a SSD drive I thought I could somehow manage to have something at least better than those other 2 times.

If I install Adobe Pr in the HDD and take the footage from the ssd, would that make a difference? or should I leave it installed in the SSD and take my footage from USB3.0 drive?

I would definitely consider a RAID in a near future, but I would need to build me a desktop to take whole advantage of it, I guess.

Thanks.

[John Gtz]

Dear David,

Thank you for your help. To be honest I hadn’t heard about RAIDs until I started my research. However, as for right now, the drives that I had discussed will be the only ones that I will be able to use for the time being.

I predominantly help my wife with her cooking videos as well as cut up some footage shot during family reunions and such.

Such footage is shot on dslr 24fps, and usually I do not have too many layers of audio and video, I’d say no more than 5 or 6.

What I really want to know is how should I distribute the material, program, cache and such, so I could get the best performance with what I have.

Thank you again for taking the time, for a pro like you are I think questions like this may get annoying.

John