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Editing High Res Photos on m.2 SSD pcie 4.0 vs 3.0

DCooper7
By DCooper7
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Hi there,

 

I was wondering if I could get some advice please....

 

I am a photographer and I about to build my first PC. I will be buying the X570 AORUS ULTRA. Ryzen 3900x I will editing high resolution files (42mp) and then saving the Raw files and transferring them to WD Gold internal storage. I was initially going to go with the Sabrent 2TB Rocket Nvme PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD, but the UK stock has gone, so I was doing some further research and I am now wondering whether there will be any performance benefit over PCIe gen 3?

 

The main point is that I will be editing all my images on that particular SSD and it will be with Lightroom, which is notoriously slow and laggy because of its current poor coding so any perfomance boost is much needed...

 

Thank you

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I have my RAW and preview cache on NVMe storage, while the photos themselves sit on HDDs. I've found that to be the most efficient solution.

That said, there was no appreciable difference either way when I tested on a Gen 4 drive.

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Thank you very much for your reply. That has already helped with my decision.

 

Thank you.

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