Storage setup for video editing&gaming advice?

[makaveli]

For example would you think this is a good setup:

• 250GB, SSD NVME for OS+programs
• 2TB, SSD NVME for project files+source media+games
• 500GB, regular SSD for only cache files
• 4TB HDD, for finished projects and archive etc.

A few concerns for me are:

• Is 250gb enough for the OS&programs?
• is 500GB enough for cache files?
• is it better too use the NVME for the cache files or source media&project files?

And another thing... I mostly use premiere but also AE and photoshop... my projects files are always around 1080p 60FPS sometimes 250FPS and length of my projects are generally around 10 min long, I do somettimes like too make heavy effects or animations with AE though... this is too give you an idea if above GB&TB would be fine with all of that.

Btw FYI, I want 2TB on the second drive because I also like to play some games next to video editing.

 

[Alex Glawion]

That looks really good already. Some notes for optimum safety / performance:

250GB will get too small after a year or two. I started out with 250GB, and after 2 years had to upgrade to 500GB, which is already almost full again. Of course I have loads of Apps like Creative Cloud Version and other Software with multiple versions on it, but I think 500GB will last anyone a longer time than 250GB.

2TB for project files is great. These are active projects, so you can get rid of some that are not used anymore. Store them on the backup discs.

500GB for Cache and manually set pagefile sounds good.

4TB for backup / archiving sounds good. But I would get 2x 4tb and always have your backup mirrored on both. Otherwise you only have a single backup of some of your projects. If that single drive fails .. that data is gone. Better to have redundancy, and HDDs aren't expensive.

Having your project files on the nvme is better than having the page/cache on the nvme. Of course, if you have the money, having both on 2 nvme drives is best

Makes sure to set your pagefile to something static, like 250GB as AE likes to use a lot of that. Having a lot of RAM >64GB for ae too makes sense. But apart from that, the config seems great.

 

[makaveli]

That looks really good already. Some notes for optimum safety / performance:

250GB will get too small after a year or two. I started out with 250GB, and after 2 years had to upgrade to 500GB, which is already almost full again. Of course I have loads of Apps like Creative Cloud Version and other Software with multiple versions on it, but I think 500GB will last anyone a longer time than 250GB.

2TB for project files is great. These are active projects, so you can get rid of some that are not used anymore. Store them on the backup discs.

500GB for Cache and manually set pagefile sounds good.

4TB for backup / archiving sounds good. But I would get 2x 4tb and always have your backup mirrored on both. Otherwise you only have a single backup of some of your projects. If that single drive fails .. that data is gone. Better to have redundancy, and HDDs aren't expensive.

Having your project files on the nvme is better than having the page/cache on the nvme. Of course, if you have the money, having both on 2 nvme drives is best

Makes sure to set your pagefile to something static, like 250GB as AE likes to use a lot of that. Having a lot of RAM >64GB for ae too makes sense. But apart from that, the config seems great.

Thanks soo much Alex!! noted. however can I ask you why u said the project files on NVME is better? I read allot of forum posts that said putting your NVME on the cache will render and playback your edits in the software faster? can you elaborate?

Also yes I will get 2 NVME for now and one regular SSD ( So I will have 3 SSD's) I thought that putting the other NVME on the OS would make editing also easier, will it?

 

[Alex Glawion]

IT depends on the type of footage you are using. If you are using 32Bit EXRs img sequences with a bunch of layers as your footage, then those will be a lot larger and harder to read than already cached footage (which is in a different and easier to read format).

If you're just loading a 720p MP4, then the nvme will not speed anything up

I am talking about ae disc-cache here.