SSD for film editing

[ransom]

Hello,

I am interested in upgrading my editing bay with SSD's. I built the system at the end of last year with I7 2600k and asus Mobo.

I am wondering what would be the best use of the SSD? Should I use it as a boot drive then cache my video projects on it. Or should I store the video files locally on the drive? What is the ideal set up-- Having multiple drives? One as a boot, and the others as "projects drives" that store the video files?

I would love a clear answer for this. I edit in Premier, after effects, and Avid. I think this would give me quite the boost of speed. Also, I am running 8bm of Ram atm, with Ram prices being so low will I see a big increase of speed if I double that to 16, specifically in Premier Pro?

Thanks!

 

[LordConrad]

First, I would upgrade your memory. Video editing software, especially Premier, will use as much memory as it can get.

Video editing requires writing huge amounts of data to disk, and SSD drives have limited life cycles. For most people these life cycles are long enough that it isn't an issue, but video editing is different as it will seriously reduce the life of SSD drives. An SSD would be fine for your boot drive, but I would use regular hard drives in a RAID 0 array as your video cache/scratch disk.

 

[thessdreview]

Although RAM will benefit, the SSD will still be a huge step forward, especially for what you are doing. Myself, I might go for a decent sized Corsair performance Pro because of its ability to handle highly incompressible data well.