hello,
I am looking for the best way to store my files while editing video. I've heard some say that raw footage should be stored on an external hard drive, and the project files and software should go on the internal hard drive on the computer. I have a large external hard drive with usb3.0 so I was planning to use that drive for my raw footage, but would my editing and rendering go faster if I were to put the raw footage on my internal hard drive (my internal hard drive is a ssd)?
I'm one of those who say you should use an external HD for all footage.
I have never personally noticed that editing and rendering go faster if I
put the raw footage on my internal hard drive.
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Originally posted by certified instigator
I'm one of those who say you should use an external HD for all footage.
A very old post, but I'll chip in, as it is valuable or others.
I agree with CI. Put all your media on external drive. There is a simple reason for that. Your computer's OS is on the internal drive. Your video editing application is most likely also on the internal drive. While you are editing, your computer is frequently accessing OS files, as well as your video editing application files. If you force it to have to also access your media files from the same hard disk, that hard disk will be extremely busy trying to fetch (or write to) several files, scattered across different disk plates, all at the same time. Ideally, you would have your OS on one physical drive, your application on another, and your media on a third one. That way, each drive will be busy dealing with only one type of data, and they could be read from / written to at the same time. You have removed your bottleneck form a single disk drive. The speed improvement will depend on how fast is the bus connecting the hard drive to the motherboard (Firewire, USB 2 / 3, thunderbolt, SATA), as well as how fast is your internal buss on the motherboard.
I just recently moved into using a eternal hard drive for my footage, i am finding it a lot more organized and easier to access.
I can agree i haven't notice any slower or faster effects it has had on rendering.
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