HDD vs SSD (video editing)

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Kevohh

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this will be used for video editing but i was wondering if i would benefit from having a SSD (64GB ADATA SP900 SATA-III 6.0Gb/s - 550 MB/s Read & 505 MB/s Write) and a HDD (1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD) in my system. will this improve render times if i render to SSD then transfer over to HDD?
thanks alot guys :)
 
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skit75
An SSD will not help render times in a meaningful/measurable way that would justify buying one. Render times are more affected by processing power like CPU clock speed, a decent amount of system memory and depending on your rendering application multiple CPU cores and/or GPU horsepower.
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An SSD will not help render times in a meaningful/measurable way that would justify buying one. Render times are more affected by processing power like CPU clock speed, a decent amount of system memory and depending on your rendering application multiple CPU cores and/or GPU horsepower.
 
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With rendering you definitely dont want a single drive trying to read and write at the same time. Common drive setups for rendering rigs are an OS drive, A source drive, and a destination drive. Some software, like adobe, makes good use of an additional scratch drive and an SSD makes a good scratch drive. Please check in your software support forums for optimal drive setups.

Also a strong processor can sometimes outperform a single harddrive and some users resort to raid0 arrays in place of the individual drives.
 
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