QUESTION: Better to have Video files on 3g SSD and Video Editing Software on 6GSSD?

[Korican100]

Here's my situation. I have a Mac Pro 3,1 with FSB.

I have a 3g SSD, and a 6g SSD with Velocity X2 solo(PCIe) to get them full 6g speeds.

I want the most optimal setup here. Do I house my video editing software on the 6g SSD and store the video files that I edit on the 3G SSD?

or Do I install my software on the 3g, with the videos on the 6g?

What would give me the fastest experience with editing, adding effects, skimming, tracking etc?

Does anyone know? Thanks

 

[JesterJJZ]

Media always goes on the faster, bigger drive.

 

[GP-SE]

files on the 6GB/s drive, software on the 3GB/s drive

 

[VirtualRain]

OS and Apps I/O is largely random small block transfers which for most SSDs top out at around 20-30MB/s. As a result, this kind of I/O can't take advantage of 6Gbps SATA3 most of the time. Large media files, however, can sustain transfer rates that will saturate the SATA bus.

So, as others have said... OS/Apps on 3G and media on 6G is your optimal setup. Whether you would actually notice a difference either way in anything but benchmarks, depends on the storage I/O workload (file sizes, queue depth, etc), software, and drives. In other words, it may make no perceptable difference.

 

[violst]

QUESTION: Better to have Video files on 3g SSD and Video Editing Software on 6GSSD?

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