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at the office so that's what we're gonna explore more of today now for those of you unaware this is no ordinary storage setup while we are booting off of a simple 250 gig 960 Evo nvme m2 SSD with our Adobe Creative Cloud software loaded up onto it as well the other disk that we're using to store all the footage will be editing with is a four terabyte 960 pro nvme raid 0 array the theoretical throughput on this set up is astronomically fast it's it's bonkers but at the same time it doesn't represent the kind of real-world performance you might expect to see inside of an application like Adobe Premiere Pro so today I thought it would be kind of interesting to compare this over the top config to a bunch of other common alternatives like a simple mechanical hard drive a SATA based SSD and even a single nvme SSD to sort of see how they all stack up hopefully by the end of this video we'll be able to tell if these super-high crazy theoretical numbers actually do us any favors inside of a professional video editing workflow but before we get started with some of the testing let's quickly go over the specs of this system which is just an absolute beast for starters we've got the I 9 79 80 X II overclocked to 4.1 gigahertz on all 18 cores and 36 threads that was deleted and fresh application of liquid metal from the folks over at gamers Nexus so shout out to those guys an Asus Rampage six extreme motherboard with 128 gigs of g.skill Trident Z RGB ddr4 at 3200 speed 2 asus strix OC GTX 10 ATT is an SLI that are being water cooled by a custom loop that I made that's also water cooling the CPU mind you once again our boot drive is a 250 gig samsung 960 Evo and our editing disk is comprised of 2 2 terabyte 960 pros in raid 0 this is all being powered by a 1200 watt power supply from enter max as I mentioned Adobe Premiere Pro is loaded up on to our C Drive that's that 960 Evo and our media cache is currently going to our editing disk that 4 terabyte nvme raid array and this is gonna be emulated for all of the other disk tests so for example when we're testing out our mechanical hard drive I'm gonna have the media cache going to that as well so with that said let's talk about the experience we had when ingesting or capturing footage which is a very important step of the whole video editing workflow regardless of what kind of editor you are what software you use or your style or technique every editor has to at one point or another capture the footage from their cameras removable media over to their computer and the faster you're able to do that the more time you have for editing the sooner you can get into it so the sample footage that we're using for this test was provided by Chris and he often works with red cameras in fact the footage here was shot on a red dragon at 6k resolution at 24 fps or 23.976 to be exact but he gave me eight files to deal with which adds up to be about 22 gigabytes so starting with our hard drive with an old magnetic platter we were able to transfer this batch of files in about a minute and 47 seconds or a hundred and seven seconds total and that was at about 68 megabytes per second which is pretty typical of a mechanical hard drive in case you were curious we're using a 2 terabyte Hitachi 7200 RPM drive our one terabyte HyperX savage SATA based SSD did a whole lot better and was able to transfer the files in a minute in 14 seconds or 74 seconds and that was at a transfer rate of 300 megabytes per second now before you get too excited about how the via me or nvme raid performed in this test remember that we're still being limited by the USB 3.0 interface which is what we're using to transfer all of these files through from the cameras media to our computers so whether you're going SATA or nvme you won't really see much difference in ingest times due to the transfer speed limitations of USB 3 as it turns out the only real performance jump you see in this test is when switching from a mechanical hard drive to an SSD whether it be SATA or nvme our next round of tests involve editing and scrubbing through the actual footage inside a Premiere Pro and the files that Chris provided us are actually clips of him we can see his face we can see him run around on camera he's actually testing the lighting for whatever project he was working on but it's good for us the fact that there's constant motion or movement on camera means that we can easily spot when a drive is having trouble when it stutters when it's choppy it's gonna be very apparent on camera whenever it's happening so it'll allow us to sort of give a better representation of how each of these drives perform I should also mention before we get into it that all of these tests are initially run at full 100% playback resolutions so in the program monitor in Adobe Premiere Pro that is being played back at full 6k resolution until or unless I specify otherwise so just bear that in mind so our hard drive was able to play back the 6k footage at full resolution at 1x no problem at real-time speed it was perfectly fine no hiccups here but as soon as we go to 2x or 4x things start to get a little bit choppy just every couple seconds there's a there's a little stutter there's maybe a dropped frame or so which kind of pulls us out of the experience it's still very usable but a little bit distracting to say the least it's not until we get to 8x speed when we just go full choppiness and we can no longer really work at this level of performance it's just it's just too much of a drag we actually had to lower the resolution down to 1/8 1/8 resolution in order to play 8x speed fluidly and even beautiful 6k red footage at eighth resolution doesn't look so great so that's not really an ideal situation that any video editor wants to be in I also tested the drives to see how they would playback time-lapse footage so basically I took the sample footage that Chris gave me and I sped it all up at 5,000 X and basically just tried to play it to see if it would if it would run and sure enough the hard drive was choppy AF so we really couldn't tell what was going on when playing it back at that ludicrous speed our SATA based HyperX savage SSD performed a lot better here and was able to play back all the footage at full resolution very smoothly up until 32x speed where we saw some choppiness for the first five to ten seconds after that it eventually sort of caught up with itself and became smooth again fortunately we passed the time-lapse test with flying colors and were able to play back the 5000 speed footage at full resolution very very smoothly so that was very impressive next we had our single nvme drive which performs pretty much on par with our SATA based SSD saw little to no hiccups all the way up to 32x speed when it became a little bit choppy for the first few seconds then it eventually evened out and became super smooth and the time-lapse playback at full resolution 5000 speed worked like a charm as well finally our nvme raid array was an absolute animal with virtually no signs of slow down or stuttering in sight I mean the thing just chewed through 32 X speed like like it was butter and that goes double for the time-lapse footage playing back at full resolution but if I'm being perfectly honest the experience I had on the SATA based SSD was one perfectly adequate in my opinion and to not that far off from what the nvme raid array was able to achieve and when you consider the price difference between the two the SATA SSD is clearly the better value for 99.9% of users except that point one percent who can actually leverage the full potential of an nvme raid array the last round of tests revolve around rendering because it's an important step of the video editing process and I figure a lot of you guys might be curious to hear whether or not your storage solution has any impact on rendering times the short answer is no as we're about to look at the data here whether we were rendering out with our hard drive with all the footage and and also being the target drive for our render our rendered file being a hard drive versus the nvme raid array we still rendered the same ten minute file in ten minutes and 50 seconds there is virtually no difference regardless of what drive we were rendering to or where the files were stored so that just goes to show and sort of a reminder that rendering really relies on a couple things your CPU your memory and your GPU if you're enabling some sort of GPU acceleration which I was for this particular test but if you're looking to cut down your encoding times then upgrading your storage solution is not really the first place you want to look you want to look at those other areas for me what this all boils down to is that you don't really need to spend an arm and a leg on a crazy fancy nvme raid array if you want to edit some 4k or even 6k footage on a prosumer level which is kind of a bummer for me because I really wish I could utilize all of this raw horsepower that I have but it really doesn't make too much of a difference when it comes to editing at the same time it's good news for someone who doesn't have twenty five hundred dollars to spend on a setup like that but still wants to have a super smooth editing experience and for those users I would suggest a SATA SSD if you can afford it get a single nvme SSD you'll get slightly better transfer speeds when you're moving files around things like that but for the most part a SATA based SSD is still gonna be perfectly fine for most editors meets especially if you're just on the consumer or prosumer level of course once you get into like you know the really really professional-grade stuff then things are a little bit different there but for the most part the SATA SSD still works just fine for video editing if you guys have any experiences of your own please feel free to share them with the class what kind of system that you're editing on what drives you're using and things like that we'd love to hear all about it down below but that's pretty much gonna do it for now guys so toss me a like on the video if you enjoyed it get subscribe to the channel for more tech stuff coming at you really soon if you liked what you saw today you can also follow me on floatplane for three bucks a month so you can get all of my content a week early without ads I'll drop a link for that in the description below till next time guys thank you so much for tuning in have a good one and I'll see you all in the next video