m.2 for Video editing?

[JBIZZL3Y]

As the title implies.. i'm looking at adding a second m.2 to my system to edit video from, as i'm currently saving all of my footage to an external usb 3 drive and am dropping frames like crazy trying to edit and scrub through my 4k timeline, especially as the timeline becomes more complex.. I'm assuming that the bottleneck is the speed of the drive and possibly my 8gb of ram?

 

I was hoping someone could offer some input on the reliability/practicality of editing from an m.2? The plan will be to archive all of my footage on the external drive and then have my current project saved on the new m.2 until it is edited and finished. Hopefully this will improve performance when editing 4K? Unfortunately i don't have usb c or thunderbolt.. just 3.0..

 

System specs at the moment:

Windows 10

i7-4710 hq

970m gpu

8gb ram - to be upgraded to 16bg along with the new m.2..

250gb m.2 system drive

1tb HD

 

Drives i've been looking at are the Crucial MX300 525GB vs the samsung 850.. I have seen some reviews of people having issues with windows 10 and the crucial drive so I would love to hear peoples thoughts if they have one as it is considerably cheaper that the samsung! I'm also open to other drives for sure!

 

Thanks for reading!

 

[Guest]

Dude you already have a m.2 drive. Just before buying test if it even makes a difference. Move a project to your m.2 boot drive and see if there id a difference.

[JBIZZL3Y]

well i feel stupid, good point ill try it when I get home.

Just now, Almostbauws said:

Dude you already have a m.2 drive. Just before buying test if it even makes a difference. Move a project to your m.2 boot drive and see if there id a difference.