Does Storage speed matter a lot when it comes to video editing?

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Wieck

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Hey,
I was planning to purchase a laptop for overseas usage and it allowed for various configuration. I am planning to use this for video editing and I was wondering whether a samsung 950 pcie ssd with write speeds at 1500MB/s would affect the speed of render times, or would it be better to spend that amount on upgrading from a i7-6700hq processor to a i7-6820hk?
Thank you for your help in advance!
 
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the pcie SSD over a mechanical or even a SATA SSD will make worlds of difference in anything involving Disk IO. Whereas the difference in those CPUs is very slight. the 6820hk, giving you 100MHz faster core and turbo frequency and being unlocked. I would think with Video rendering you would be reading and writing large amounts of video frequently.
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the pcie SSD over a mechanical or even a SATA SSD will make worlds of difference in anything involving Disk IO. Whereas the difference in those CPUs is very slight. the 6820hk, giving you 100MHz faster core and turbo frequency and being unlocked. I would think with Video rendering you would be reading and writing large amounts of video frequently.
 
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I agree, disc over CPU.

No matter how fast your CPU is, at some point you gonna hit the disc, unless u telling me you got 256G RAM monster and everything u do is kept in RAM, the disc is gonna hits the brake. If fast disc, at lest the braking won't be that bad.
 
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The high write speeds of SSD are only actually noticeable if you are writing from SSD to SSD.
The difference between PCI-E SSD and SATA SSD is big, Difference between SSD and HDD is big, but PCI-E SSD to PCI-E SSD or SATA SSD to SATA SSD is not going to be noticeable.
Best thing you could do is have another SSD as an external (or internal if laptop has the room). That way you can have the initial file on one drive and final on a different.

Those two CPUs wont make much a difference.
Make sure to get 16gb of memory
Nvidia video card will help rendering as well.
 
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First. depends on what kind of rendering.

Normal video conversion / splicing and the use of 1080 at a low bit rate you will not see much of a difference.

When you start getting into layers and layer of effects and then start working with 2k 2.5k 4k etc then yes a SSD will come in handy.

I would NOT spend money on a 950 pro. A 850 Evo will be more than enough. The only people who benefit from a 950 are 1) servers being hit with IO every second with multiple request or SQL databases and 2) people who are just transferring bit files back and fourth.

even with a normal SSD the CPU is the bottle neck as it can't read and write the rendered frames no where near as fast as the SSD can go.
 
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Wieck

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Hey guys,
Sorry for the late reply. It was 3 am when I posted so uhh... Kinda fell asleep. Anyways, thanks for the giving me so much insight, I think i'll stick with a better ssd now. Thanks again !
 
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