SSD speed for rendering with Vegas and memory.

VMP wrote on 11/16/2013, 11:56 PM

My question in short: SSD 450 MB/sec Vs 520 MB/sec would there be a big difference in render time?

The price difference between the drives are 80 euros.

I am planning to buy a dedicated SSD for rendering with Vegas.
I have noticed a noticeable speed difference with my hardisc vs SSD.

I am buying the seperate SSD to avoid running down my current SSD which is the C drive and OS.

I could buy:

Kingston V300 - 120GB Speed 450 MB/sec

Or

Samsung 840 EVO 250GB Speed 520 MB/sec

I will be mostly rendering H.264 files like MC / Sony AVC and MXF files.
I use Vegas 12 and 9 to render.

Also I have noticed that Vegas 12 (after a while) is using all the 16 Gb of physical memory during render of Sony AVC, is that normal? The timeline did have much FX on the events, source material are M2ts/ avc files from my NXcam.
Would adding another physical16 Gb of memory make the render any faster?

Thanks in advance.

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seanfl wrote on 2/5/2014, 5:02 PM

My Samsung 840 Pro (256 gig) opens Vegas in 3 seconds. Renders are very quick. Nothing has brought more speed to my day to day operations than adding SSD's in the last few years. My early experience was bad...had two out of five ocz drives go bad. The Samsungs have been rock solid.

ymmv. I'm adding a Samsung 840 evo 500 gig version this weekend.

Sean
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MTuggy wrote on 2/5/2014, 7:27 PM

I replaced all my main drives on my PC's with 750 or 500 GB SSD's about 4 months ago. I would never go back- boot times are down to about 30 secs instead of 3-4 minutes on my editing machine. Even my laptop boots in 30 sec instead of several minutes. Every program I use regulary opens in a few seconds instead of 20-30 sec (or longer). It's saves me a lot of grey hair just not having to wait around for things to open when multitasking. Felt like I got new upgraded computers. I'll use the same drives when I do upgrade someday as well.

Mike

riredale wrote on 2/5/2014, 11:51 PM

Oh, man, each situation is different, but on my PC I installed a 10,000 WD Raptor several years ago as the C drive. Boot times definitely shortened, taking perhaps two-thirds the time as with the 7,200rpm drive.

Then last fall I finally got around to replacing the Raptor with a Plextor SSD. Boot times are now roughly half what they were with the Raptor. Not just booting Windows, but every program, every window on the C drive. Huge difference.

As for life, I will be surprised if the SSD fails before it becomes obsolete for other reasons in, say, 5 to 10 years. A very worthwhile system upgrade.

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