Advantage of NVMe Drives In Your Workflow

alan-m wrote on 8/30/2019, 1:17 PM

Hi there,

For video editors who implement SSDs into their workflow, is there a common bottleneck that one may come across when it comes to using SAS/SATA drives that NVMe can help compensate for, and make the overall workflow faster?

I am kind of a noob to this stuff, but I want to create an optimized video editing workflow in regards to my storage configuration.

Another question: Where exactly in a video editing workflow would it be more convenient to have a faster NVMe drive? I know NVMe is commonly used for caching.. but anything else?

I really appreciate the help!!!

Thanks

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j-v wrote on 8/30/2019, 1:36 PM

In all my editing I never encountered slow reading of videofiles, other than totally lossy (not compressed in any way) heavy (more than 4K) videofiles.
But with enough space on my harddrives I only use the last years AVC or HEVC compressed files for reading and writing. The only need I have is fast decoding and fast encoding and for those things VP17 is luckely very much improved and the only reason to buy it for my hobby needs.

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john_dennis wrote on 8/30/2019, 1:57 PM

Here are two of my past thoughts on what NVMe will do and won't do. I'm not typing them again.

Former user wrote on 8/30/2019, 7:47 PM

Another question: Where exactly in a video editing workflow would it be more convenient to have a faster NVMe drive? I know NVMe is commonly used for caching.. but anything else?

I really appreciate the help!!!

Thanks

 

NVME's can read/write at 3000MB/s whereas SATA is limited to 550MB/s . Vegas cache files are under 20mbit/s, not really that huge to demand NVME. 45mins of video = 6GB cache file . Creation of audio peak file & video cache isn't aided at all.

Imported video files even with a large multicam project reading or encoding shouldn't be a problem with sata. As example high bit rate 4k cameras may use 100mbit/s, that's only 12.5MB/s. It is the memory type that's most important. If it's bad quality like my Intel SSD 660p NVME, it will write 1/2 as slow as a mechanical HDD with large file transfers. I believe it's speed goes down to 50MB/s