Video editing NVME vs SSD (Samsung 970 NVME editing performance)

Thanks for the tips!

Any tests with nvme as boot drive vs ssd as boot drive for video editing. Trouble finding this info, most test just show boot time

just a question: are u sure u have the m2 in the right slot and also enabled its full potential in the bios?

Can i upgrade ram or ssd for timeline performance

Thanks for the video.

How have u set up ur drives

Are u installing OS and programs on same drives?
What is the specification of each drive

Thanks a lot! I want purchase a m2 ssd, but a friend's told me that the impact is not very big compared to the price, and your test (according my work) is the perfect test that I search :). This is true, I think ssd or m2 is not very important compared to cpu power!

Great stuff I'm flying my drone over the tesla factory now and my machine is getting slow , not trying to save money I will probably re work my drive and reformst windows and make sure all my current drives are set up properly using different parts of the cycle but maybe a faster CPU is my bottleneck with a Ryzen 1800+ wish I had a Ryzen 9

My question is - so I have m1 mac mini which is gonna run
1. OS and software.
2. I HAVE 500GB Kingston ssd for cache.
3. For project files should I buy a 500gb Kingston ssd or NVME?

Does the speed matters for project files storage for video editing and how?

You saved me. I was about to buy NVMe......Thanks for the tests

How about After Effects? Can you check that too?

well if you only have two drives, you can store completed projects on any of those and then have cache and active projects separate and you'd get the same thing with the tip you suggested.

i have my eyes on Gen4 SSDs.. i suppose this must make some difference

Once I turned down your narration speed to 75%, I found your demonstrations to be thorough and a model of clarity.

Thanks. This was a more realistic review instead of number crunching and hypothetical data. So if im looking for faster timeline performance (not rendering and ingesting) for 4k footage like 150mbps (GH5s) and with some color grading and effects slapped onto clips.......... Then can i go with a normal SSD or a PCIe NVME card ?

great , you save me money thanks

So would you get a motherboard with 3 M.2 NVME slots and 6 SATA slots, or 2 M.2 NVME slots and 8 SATA slots? Does it matter if you put your active video and photo projects on the NVME and then use the SSD on SATA as cache drives? Or you can use the SSDs as active drives and the NVME as cache? Or just use SSDs for everything? I shoot photos primarily and want dabble into video as well. I have the RTX 2080 Ti GPU and just got the Ryzen 5950x. Trying to decide between
-Gigabyte AORUS Master
-Asus Crosshair VIII Dark Hero
-Asus x570 Pro Workstation

Thank you! Very elucidative.

ssd link?

What about the ultra M.2 drives?? Or am I totally out of touch with this newer hardware terminology lol?? Thought there was m.2 and m.2 Ultra

I disagree, try ursa 12k footage with the best NLE available (resolve) and then you should see the NVMe has a significant advantage over SSD.

HOW MUCH STORAGE DO YOU NEED FOR THE MEDIA CACHE/SCRATCH DISK DRIVE!? How come knowbody answers that FUCING question? Your going to have people buying 1TB for a scratch disk.

Nicely edited, the video is pretty.

Amd 5900x | ZOTAC GeForce RTX 2060 Super Amp 8GB GDDR6 Video Card
Drive 1 M.2 SSD 2 TB Active projects
Drive 2 SATA 1TB SSD Cache & Scratch
Drive 3 HDD Completed Projects
Drive 4 (C Drive) SATA SSD 500GB for W10 OS
This should be more than ideal right? My idea is to have a separate SSD for Adobe apps like lightroom and premiere pro alone. Or am I over killing Drive 2 with 1TB when it can be 500GB instead? Input please!!

Like holy shit transitioning from HDD to NVMe feels like dragging my ass out of the stone age. I can't wait for my backups to transfer from HDD (still going!). Whoever says NVMe is not worth it these days ($250 for 2TB gen 4 TLC 5000 MB/s read) is fucking insane and needs to shut the hell up

I’m using the SSD currently and it still runs great in 2021 to the year 2022..

How do you display the "green"/"yellow" light next to "Fit" in the source panel?

Hi Trevor,
I do have:
1To SSD (with Win10 and everything on it)
2To SATA HDD (Not very used.)

Q1-What is your suggestion to make my work with DaVinci Resolve more efficient with only theses 2 storages?
Q2-My budget is limited, will I get a nice boost in performance if I buy another SSD?

Thanks a lot for this video.

but do you really need 2 TB? I think 1 Tb of NVME SSD with 2 TB of HDD is enough. For storing you can always opt for external HDDs. Tell me I am wrong.

ok this saved me some money lol

Thanks Trevor for the good points! but I assume the NVME still attracts me more, in particular copying a few GB of RAW files from SD card and editing them.

Dope video thanks bro!

Rendering actually goes off of ram, cpu and hard drive. GPU has nothing to do with it unless your doing cgi, 3d work and simulations.

Very helpful thank you 💚

Great review. Thanks

Do you think the Samsung 970 still relevant and good for 4K video editing?

I have a USB 3.1 external enclosure

Nvme also gets way hotter so you need good airflow otherwise the performance goes downhill. Good to see there isn't much difference, I'll buy a new SATA SSD now:)

nvme are overpriced and overrated.

All it's going to do is speed up whatever program you are using. Which isn't particularly important.

Just so people know. Get two small gb (120gb) ssds, for media and cache. And two massive hdd, mirrored, to store media not processing. Then 3rd ssd/nvme for os and programs.
Best way to do it. Cheapest way to do it too

Which drive do you recommend the render file be for faster rendering?

In 2022 970 nvme suck now

Man the real advantage of the NVMe comes out with multicam

damn this is only a7iii footage though.... I just tried it on my FX3 with 10 bit but damn my computer is still slow =/

Thank you for making the video. My Lenovo IdeapadGaming 3 (2020) has an M.2 NVME SK Hynix SSD(2300 R/1000 W). If SATA SSD shows almost similar speed for video editing, I guess that replacing my SK Hynix with a fast Samsung EVO M.2 NVME pci-e 3.0 SSD (3500 R/ 2300 W) will be unnecessary at all.