- Nov 13, 2017
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So I have been editing on my 7 year old rig. It was as good as I could afford at the time, so it has held up well and has had a GPU upgrade last year.
i7 3770k
24gb RAM
RX580
Samsung SSD 830 120gb
WD 2TB HDD
Obviously my HDD is way too slow now I've got myself a 4K camera and have actually started to film and edit in 4K. My SSD is simply just a boot drive and not big enough to put video files on.
Thankfully business is going good, but I desperately need to upgrade my storage situation. I am also worried that my 7 year old hard drive will be close to giving up, having been used every day like a workhorse.
also this is a somewhat separate issue- if I upgrade my SSD to say 500gb, is there a way to have my windows 10 basically copied over exactly how it is?
So, I have read about the differences between RAID 0, 1 and 5, but I still don't know what to go for.
I have a budget of £1000 lets say, obviously if this is way too low I can increase that, but running a business I'm trying to keep costs down a bit.
I need something fast enough to handle a 4k video edit, first and foremost, which makes me think I need RAID 0. I also would like to be able to store past projects on a much larger, slower drive, but one that is safe and reliable.
So if anyone could give me some suggestions on what I need to purchase, how to install it, etc. that would be incredible. Is there a place that will sort everything for me, for a premium obviously, but that the rig will be guaranteed to work? As much as I like messing on with computers, when it comes to this I kind of need it to work well and reliably.
i7 3770k
24gb RAM
RX580
Samsung SSD 830 120gb
WD 2TB HDD
Obviously my HDD is way too slow now I've got myself a 4K camera and have actually started to film and edit in 4K. My SSD is simply just a boot drive and not big enough to put video files on.
Thankfully business is going good, but I desperately need to upgrade my storage situation. I am also worried that my 7 year old hard drive will be close to giving up, having been used every day like a workhorse.
also this is a somewhat separate issue- if I upgrade my SSD to say 500gb, is there a way to have my windows 10 basically copied over exactly how it is?
So, I have read about the differences between RAID 0, 1 and 5, but I still don't know what to go for.
I have a budget of £1000 lets say, obviously if this is way too low I can increase that, but running a business I'm trying to keep costs down a bit.
I need something fast enough to handle a 4k video edit, first and foremost, which makes me think I need RAID 0. I also would like to be able to store past projects on a much larger, slower drive, but one that is safe and reliable.
So if anyone could give me some suggestions on what I need to purchase, how to install it, etc. that would be incredible. Is there a place that will sort everything for me, for a premium obviously, but that the rig will be guaranteed to work? As much as I like messing on with computers, when it comes to this I kind of need it to work well and reliably.
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