Optimal setup questions

[Jetta]

I do video editing on the side and i need lots of storage because i do 1440p at 90 fps. i have a 1 tb ssd (c drive) and 2x 1TB hhd 5400rpm (for editing), ive filled my c drive and the hhd are terrible slow so i was wondering what a good setup would be?

should i do a massive 4tb nvme for my entire pc or a 2 tb nvme for just editing and antoher 1 tb for games and such. i just want a cost effect solution.

[PDifolco]

I'd say get a 2TB NVme for working vids (<$200) and 4TB+ SSD for storage ($300+)

Poor man solution would be to put 2x2GB 7200rpm HDD ($100) in RAID0 mode to double their speed

 

Else you could also look at using a caching software on your HDD to make them snappier. I use Primocache (license is $20some) and my HDD "often" has SSD like speeds thanks to that (I use my NVme as cache for the HDD, and RAM to cache the NVme  )

[YoungBlade]

Honestly, for today's games, you can save money and just get a SATA SSD. There are 1TB SATA drives available for $70, and even if they don't come with a DRAM cache, it doesn't really matter for just games, as you're mainly just reading off the drive. DRAM cache is much more important when the drive is dealing with OS stuff.

 

In the future, if/when Direct Storage is a thing, you'll need an NVMe drive to take advantage of it, but such games do not yet exist, and you'd still have an NVMe in your computer anyway that you could just toss that one Direct Storage game onto.

[Jetta]

44 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

I'd say get a 2TB NVme for working vids (<$200) and 4TB+ SSD for storage ($300+)

Poor man solution would be to put 2x2GB 7200rpm HDD ($100) in RAID0 mode to double their speed

 

Else you could also look at using a caching software on your HDD to make them snappier. I use Primocache (license is $20some) and my HDD "often" has SSD like speeds thanks to that (I use my NVme as cache for the HDD, and RAM to cache the NVme  )

i could i combine the caching software with raid 0? i havent either so idk the limitations.

[PDifolco]

2 hours ago, Jetta said:

i could i combine the caching software with raid 0? i havent either so idk the limitations.

I don't use RAID0 (no real need) but I'm pretty sure that hardware or BIOS RAID0 and software cache would work together as the cache will happen "on top of" the RAID part

Now with software RAID0, if it wasn't designed by idiots it should work as well, but I'm not sure, this can be googled easily