Doubt about external drive for Adobe Premiere

[Mikcheck]

Hello guys.

I've bought a laptop for editing hd videos in premiere but it has only 5400rpm. If i buy an external drive with 7200rpm and put there all the footage and work from there, will things be better? I was thinking about a Seagate USB3.






Thanks.

[nic2k4]

More or less; first make sure your laptop has a USB3 port. Laptop drives are noticeably slower than 3.5" desktop drives, but then laptops also are less powerful than desktops so why use that for serious work.

In theory you'd get smoother operation for things like fast forward, jumping around the timeline... if you put the project working folder on the 3.5" drive. In reality, unless you have exact specs on all drives involved this may just be conjecture. What I can say without a doubt you will see a benefit for things like rendering or anything where data is being copied from a source to a target if you use a different drive for the source and target i.e. set your output folder to the laptop drive.

[Mikcheck]

Hi. Thanks for the reply.

So please tell me, would you recommend to buy an external drive with 7200rpm? Yes my laptop has USB3 port. Should i use the internal drive for the software and external drive for all the hd footage?

My laptop specifications are:

i7-4700MQ

2.4 GHz

DDR3L

16 GB RAM

NVIDIA GT745M - 4 GB

Windows 8 64 bits
1 TB 5400RPM

1920 x 1080 Pixels

4 USB3 Ports

Thanks.

[turk690]

...I was thinking about a Seagate USB3.

If I were truly serious, I wouldn't be caught dead using a USB-connected external drive for a laptop with a view for using the whole to capture and edit videos with. Not even USB3. I will use eSATA all the way. I have talked and explained about this at length in several older posts.

[MindController]

...I was thinking about a Seagate USB3.

If I were truly serious, I wouldn't be caught dead using a USB-connected external drive for a laptop with a view for using the whole to capture and edit videos with. Not even USB3. I will use eSATA all the way. I have talked and explained about this at length in several older posts.

Not to mention Windows (especially the newer version) has this stupid thing where it powers down your ext USB hard drives. Sure, there's a setting to change it in Windows, but it doesn't actually fix it. Windows still turns them off after a certain amount of time. So go with eSATA if you have the option.

[Mikcheck]

Hello guys. Thanks for the replys.Is that an external drive?



Edit - I guess you're talking about an SSD drive, either internal or external?

[turk690]

Hello guys. Thanks for the replys.Is that an external drive?
Edit - I guess you're talking about an SSD drive, either internal or external?

SATA is the standard for internal drives and is a single-device controller (unlike USB, which is a hub-and-spoke controller for multiple devices). Its external counterpart is eSATA, which your laptop may have; check it.
So get an external drive which is eSATA connected. An eSATA external drive may or may not be SSD; it's size you are after so you will get a conventional hard drive in a eSATA external case.

[Mikcheck]

Thank you turk.

One more thing. What is better, an internal drive with 1T and 5400rpm or one with 750G and 7200rpm (for editing videos purpose)?


Thanks.

[turk690]

What is better, an internal drive with 1T and 5400rpm or one with 750G and 7200rpm (for editing videos purpose)?

I'll take the 7200rpm any day. Sorry for only responding now....

[Mikcheck]

Hi turk, that's fine!

Well i've ordered a Samsung 840 SSD internal drive with 250g. I'll have the software in the SSD drive and the videos and other stuff in 1TB HDD drive.

Then, if i need another one in the future, i'll buy an external drive with 7200rpm or maybe change the internal 5400 for one with 7200 but i dont think it will be necessary, at least for now

[Brainiac]

When you get the ssd drive, make sure you tweak it so you get the most out of it. I finally upgraded the system drive in my desktop editing computer and the performance gains were unbelievable. Before I swapped out the drive, it took over 3 minutes for the computer to boot up, and the drive was defragged. After the upgrade, the boot time improved to about 45 seconds!

I have an extraordinary amount of software on my desktop, with most of it being for video editing. I made sure startup items were kept to a minimim. Now all I need to do is disable unnecessary services.

Brainiac

[Mikcheck]

Hello Brainiac. Thank you for your reply.

When you say to tweak it, what you really mean with that? Thank you. Best regards.

[Brainiac]

I had read, I believe on this site after doing a search, that you should make sure that the firmware is current for the ssd. There also are a number of things you can do in Windows that will supposedly affect the longevity of your ssd.

Links to guides:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1133897/windows-7-ssd-tweaking-guide

I followed the above guide and my drive's performance did increase. YMMV.

Brainiac

[Mikcheck]

Thanks. Well i have Windows 8 so i dont know if it will work equally.

About the firmware, you mean to update the firmware for the ssd?

[Brainiac]

Yes, the firmware for the ssd.

Brainiac

[Mikcheck]

Thanks!

[themaster1]

Hi turk, that's fine!

Well i've ordered a Samsung 840 SSD internal drive with 250g. I'll have the software in the SSD drive and the videos and other stuff in 1TB HDD drive.

I hope that's a pro version because the regular 840 have nothing special ( according to the benchmarks i've seen)


I've never used premiere but i'm told from experts users (who use it daily for video edition) that it's best to have:
- an ssd (big enough, so above 128MB i guess), 2 partitions:
> 1st: for the OS+apps
> 2nd for the videos sources and cached files

- a second drive (preferably internal ,sata 3 indeed)
> for the rendered videos

Then you'll have to configure premiere so everything goes where it's supposed to

[Mikcheck]

Hi themaster1. Well it's no the pro version, it's the regular one but i guess that can also do a decent job for the price i've paid for it.

Thanks for that tip. I didn't know that. How can i get one drive with 2 partitions?


Thanks.