Storage allocation for video editing

[Ginger Penguin]

Hi all,

 

I'm currently planning a video editing rig and I'm wondering how I should allocate my storage. There's also a Samsung cashback deal at the moment so I thought I might try and take advantage of that and get any SSDs I need in advance. I had originally planned to have a 500GB 970 Evo Plus for the OS applications, and project files (plus any sort of small general things like photos and documents) and 3x2TB 7200RPM HDDs in RAID 0 for the media and cache (with backups of the original media on an external drive of course). But I'm thinking it might be an idea to have an 860 Evo for OS and applications etc. and save one of my M.2 slots for project files and cache. I highly doubt I'd be able to keep the actual media on there, though, as I'm currently working with a mixture of ProRes HD and h.264 4K with a plan to add in ProRes 4K/6K at some point in the future.

 

Is there any benefit to going the second way around if I can't keep the media itself on SSDs or would performance be pretty much the same?

 

Cheers!