WHo is using PCI-e NVMe SSD

BrianMurphy

BrianMurphy

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Anyone setting up their system up with NVMe SSDs? I have one in my system as my os and app drive. Small just 250 gigs but I ran the BM Speed test on it today and WOW! So now I am looking at PCI-e card adapters and a couple of 1TB NVMe SSDs as drives for the edit system. Any input greatly appreciated.
 
I would be more interested in putting one in as a cache drive, and I'm actually planning this and a RAM upgrade right now. My good laptop has an M.2 drive for system, and it is fast, but also has a second slot which I'm either going to use for a Linux drive, or a fast cache drive. I'm not sure having a large media drive will be of benefit to me on my system (could be wrong though).

People are building giant (and expensive) storage servers with NVMe drives, but the cost per byte is very high when you consider the speed you can get from many spinning drives in an array. I would probably go with 4 or more 2.5 inch SATA SSD in a large RAID 0 if I needed large and fast storage, you can probably get 4 times the storage for the same price as a large NVMe drive.
 
Have a 2TB Samsung 960 Pro in a recent PC build (10 Core, 64GB RAM). Using the heaviest/slowest video footage (Alexa 65 / LF ARRIRAW) it performs well. Everything else I typically edit, from 100Mbps 420 H.264 to C300 II RGB 444 12-bit
MXF to 1DX II 422 MJPEG (the most challenging compressed format) edits fine from external WD USB 3.0 drives (~5400 RPM). Bottleneck tends to be the NLE (design: utilization of CPU & GPU resources) vs. disk I/O. Having an NVMe drive is handy to show disk I/O isn't the bottleneck in most cases (unless you're trying to edit uncompressed video and/or using something like After Effects and (pre)rendering to an uncompressed format)).
 
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