Sata vs SSD

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Hayzen

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Hi all,

I'm planning on buying a Macbook Pro and use it for editing HDV footage when I'm out of town. Should I upgrade the hard drive to a 7200 rpm sata drive or a solid state drive? Can one of them save me more time (editing/rendering/etc) than the other or are they roughly the same?

Thanks
 
The SSD is a lot faster than a standard hard drive. But the trade off is that it's expensive- in my opinion a lot more so than it's faster, in my opinion. Although some people have concerns with data loss, if you're backing up properly I'd go RAID0 standard Drives long before I go SSD. The cost it would take to approach enough space for media projects is just not worth it.

If you're edting most SD footage a standard 7200rpm on its own should be fine.
 
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SATA is interface. SSD is the storage technology. These are different things that do not exclude one another.
 
Cranky said:
SATA is interface. SSD is the storage technology. These are different things that do not exclude one another.
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Was there confusion about this?

We have a 2.5 Crucial SSD attached to the SATA bus as a boot drive in our MBP.

It boots in under 5 seconds, and justs down within 2 seconds.

Read is 235 GB/s and write is 170 GBs.

We can install it as a second drive by removing the optical drive and running it off that bus.

This would be ideal with a solid TravelStar as a boot drive, IMO
 
Aren't SSD's also a lot more energy efficient? You should gain battery life with an SSD as a system drive. I'd get away from a 5400RPM drive as fast as I could, but that's just me.

If money is not the issue, go SSD. From what I find, those who can afford it quickly get over the price when they start reaping the benefits of that incredible drive speed. Just keep in mind that you can't hold much on it other then root programs you use.

But I concur, I would not use as a scratch/capture drive. I don't think the extra speed is effective yet for video editing purposes. And usually drive space is more valuable then speed once you have a quality FW800 drive or better.


Also, all drives SSD or magnetic, are vulnerable to data loss and drive failure no matter how well they are designed. Even an unexpected power surge can kill a good drive, not necessarily a drive-self-failure. On OSX Time Machine is invaluable. And good backup workflows of your data are priceless. It only takes once to learn that lesson the hard way.
 
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