I am helping someone build a PC and I haven't got much knowledge on an ideal setup for video and graphics editing. I have looked up online videos by others but thought to put a post here to get some ideas.
We have 3 drives (and what I am thinking in parentheses):
1x Samsung 500G M.2 - (OS+Software??)
1x Samsung 1TB M.2 - (Scratch & Cache?)
1x Samsung 2TB SSD - (Source files).
Does this look right?
I am particularly confused by a 4-5 year old article/video by Puget systems in which they suggest to put Media on M.2 and Scratch on SSD. I feel it should be opposite as Media will mostly be sustained read only and scratch/cache will read and write more & hence should benefit more being an M.2 than SATA.
They also talk of "Project Files" which I don't even know what they are (seperate from cache/scratch?? files).
Any other suggestions how to use these 3 drives? And later should a 4th or 5th be added?
Is performance of your scratch disk that important anymore though?
Just create proxies for editing, and only use the original media for colour grading and the final render.