Is a 5000Mbps Cache/Scratch Nvme drive (for Resolve, Premiere, After Effects) enough even up to 8K multicam or should i buy a 7000mbps Nvme?

[Awman]

Hello

 

For a dedicated 2Tb Nvme drive for Resolve and After Effets Cache/Scratch (only that) do you think it would be beneficial to buy a 7000Mbps Nvme or a 5000Mbps Nvme (which i can have for way cheaper + it has twice the endurance) would be plenty enough to handle up to 8K (most of the time 4K and 6K) footages multicam from high bandwith codecs like ProRas444 HQ and RedPro and 4K after Effects?

 

Hoping to get an answer from people who... well know the answer , no speculators please

 

Thank you

[Electronics Wizardy]

What models of drives? Those peak numbers are often near impossible to hit in real world use cases.

 

Id guess the 5gB/s drive will be more than plenty. You will probably hit cpu/gpu limits well before storage limits.

[Awman]

Seagate Firecuda530 (7300 Mo/s read / 6900 write) with 2550TBW and seagate Firecuda 520 (5000 Mo/s read / 4400 write) with 3600TBW but can get it for 70€ cheaper.

CPU 5950X (probably will switch to 7950X down the road), 128Gb ram et RTX3090 24Gb

[Electronics Wizardy]

7 hours ago, Awman said:

Seagate Firecuda530 (7300 Mo/s read / 6900 write) with 2550TBW and seagate Firecuda 520 (5000 Mo/s read / 4400 write) with 3600TBW but can get it for 70€ cheaper.

CPU 5950X (probably will switch to 7950X down the road), 128Gb ram et RTX3090 24Gb

Id ge tthe cheaper drive then. I have a 5950x + 64gb ram + 1080 + resolve studio and don't need that much ssd to speed to handle clips like canon raw 8k.

 

For example, prores 4444 is about 1gB/s at 8k 30p, and that ssd could probably handle 4 of those at once. And prores 4444 will fill a 4tb drive with about a hour of footage, so I think space will be a issue before speed.