For anybody just finding this video, remember that you can also change the project settings (bottom right gear) and under master settings modify the cache and proxy folders for individual projects. This just offers a little extra granularity when deciding which projects will be stored on different drives (depending on time frame, resolution, proxy/optimized media, etc.). Hope that helps someone who might want that extra bit of control!

ALOT OF VIEOS OUT THERE ON THIS TOPIC AND YOUR THE FIRST TO EXPLAIN IN THE DETAIL NEEDED!!! THANK YOU FOR THAT!!! GOOD JOB!!!

I have seen several similar videos and read a few articles about storage for creators. And all forget about backup storage (I do not count the story, it did not explain the matter). For people without IT terminology knowledge, backup is different from the archive. Backups are very very neglected, sometimes even by IT professionals. I already had to attempt to rescue at least some data for many people, and sometimes it is just not possible or extremely costly if they need to pay for "forensic" lab rescue. Even one professional editor had failed SSD with several projects just to be sent to the client - without backup! So better to have fewer drives and mix e.g. system and cache drive, than omit backups as some of your drives will fail one day.

@ElMeach

Жыл бұрын

Just happened to me. Luckily was old archive (exactly what you say, no backup) so the most heartbreaking I lost was some videos of my dog when he was a puppy and is now 14 years old. But lesson learned, bought a bigger hdd and copied everything from every remaining drive and now is unplugged and resting hoping not to be bothered again until maybe next month

@spiriti84toi95

11 ай бұрын

P😊0😊⁰ppl0

@ToxicHAL

6 ай бұрын

Would a NAS not be a great backup? Epecially if it’s redundant?

I miss discussions like these. I was able to build my PC last 2018 and have rarely looked into videos like these. It's amazing that within that year and now, I was able to add more drives to my system the way I envisioned it (more or less the same as recommended in the video). That was some journey.

What a coincidence 💚 I've been contemplating over if I should reorganize my drive structure for editing projects. Thanks!

Very helpful! Thank you. I am setting up various external build my own NVME SSD drives and this is just what I needed to know.

Appreciate the effort you put into these videos mate! Much appreciated 👍

@ifell3

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha Stil It onboard 🥃

Your channel deserves a subscription. Thank you for this great pack of information.

Excellent video and thanks for all of the info, much appreciated

Amazing overview, thanks :) Keep the good videos going

Thanks for the insight into worflow storage as I am currently building a computer for content creation and streaming. It's a relief to hear that I'm on the right track, as i am novice to this environment. Cheers

Buying NAS hard drives for regular storage with the intent to use them later in a NAS has one drawback. When you put them in the NAS, it will need to reformat the drives to build the NAS volumes, so you will still need other storage (local or cloud) to hold your data while you setup the NAS.

@theTechNotice

2 жыл бұрын

True that!

This was the video I was looking for. Thank you!

Great stuff as always! Thanks!

Bro you nailed it, absolutely nailed it!!! Also, very creative way to explain it with the boxes and drawlings on the table. I edit using Premiere Pro, and have a Ryzen 7 3800x, 32 GB's RAM, RTX 2060 6 GB, on an X570 Motherboard. Because I have a Gen 4 Mobo and CPU I have a (2) 1 TB Samsung 980 Pro Gen 4 Drives. One as my OS/Programs Drive, and the 2nd as my video (Content, Assets) drive. For my Adobe Media Cache Drive I just use a Samsung 860 SSD, and I also have some hooptie Dell 500 GB SSD just for random stuff. I have an 8 Bay NAS my buddy gave me. It's an older Drobo b810 Enterprise NAS. I just stuffed it with 1 TB drives. I get HDD's for $5 each, so my NAS isn't the best but it was very cheap and does the job. Once I'm finished with a project, I move everything to my NAS so I can keep my faster drives freed up. Great Video Man!!!

Amazing as always.. you're such an inspiration! Thank you very much!

Fantastic video! I learned so much. Purchased a FireCuda and a 980 with your links for my first 2 levels. Gonna move the current SATA SSD to level 3. Will be back to watch again for the Davinci setup once the drives get here :)

You have the best videos. I’m just getting started with video editing and almost any question I have about computer gear you have a video about. Great work, thanks!

Very useful video because being only able to create content is not enough. More power, organisation, storage and speed = more efficiency = more success. Thank you for your work, it's really enjoyable !

Awesome video very useful information. I never thought of this before and will apply on my next build.

thank you for decently sorted and structured video

Thanks... This Was Exactly What I've Been Looking For

The best ( and clear) video about this topic in youtube . Thanks a lot for your time!

@theTechNotice

2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

great help. thanks mate.

The information is available on internet in many places. But, this is the best way the info is explained and presented. 👌

Clean, fast, and thorough af! Thanks!

Good timing. I’ve been searching for more info on storage workflow in Resolve for the last few days. This is the best walkthrough I’ve seen. Thanks for the info!

@theTechNotice

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help! ;)

@justrusty

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. I'm just setting up for this as of 3 days ago.

@vsentertainment385

2 жыл бұрын

@@theTechNotice can you suggest 3050 or 1660 super

This is such an amazing video man, thanks a lot, it really helped me.

THANK YOU homie, so much good info!

Man you are just legend. Whatever that i have as a doubt, you have a video on that. Thank you very much for your hardwork.

Thankyou for this, I'm about to build an editing rig, I honestly hadn't thought of having a cache drive

I learned a lot from your channel. Thanks.

Nice one...Thanks

Great video. Thanks for the advice. Have been running a single Gen 3 m.2 for both Project and Cache. Have decided to split it. New setup: Operating System: Samsung 980 PRO 2TB PCle 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD (Gen 4) - NEW Project/ Assets: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD (Gen 3) - OLD Project + Cache Cache: WD Western Digital WDS500G2B0C Blue SN550 500GB NVMe (Gen 3) - OLD OS Drive Archive HDD: Seagate IronWolf 10TB 3.5" NAS Hard Drive - NEW Will also be using part of the cache drive to cache the Archie HDD.

Well explained man I learnt a lot about storage and file management related things from your channel

WOW. Just found your channel and it is freaking amazing! Love what you're doing in showing us best practices for storage and what products will get the best performance! I was searching to see what NVMe SSD and enclosure to get. The budget-conscious yet storage-hungry side of me is looking at the 4TB Crucial P3 Plus stick, but some of the stock enclosures out there are maxing at 1000/gb speed. Will the speed of that stick in Acasis 40gbps enclosure that you demo'd get better speeds? I'm lost in this world, and appreciate all the video help you're providing! Thank you!

Great video and very good explanation thanks man.

@theTechNotice

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Super clear and helpful video! I have a 5th option. HDD archive in pc and a nas synchronised to the HDD on the PC.😊

Thanks dude. Just ordered 2x 2TB Kingston KC3000. Got it for 219eu/piece so that was the cheapest option actually!

Great stuff!

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@nicktayloriv310

2 жыл бұрын

Nice, built an inhouse one for myself last year and you're right you'll never go back once you have one!!!

@nicktayloriv310

2 жыл бұрын

and looks like I'm not the only one that uses a Rapoo MT750 mouse... 🐁🖱

Cool explanation

Really useful vid , ^^

Excellent, best video for me so far. I use 4 cameras and my phone and will be adding drone capture soon. I'm pretty on the ba with files and storage but that was huge. I'm building my new pc next month so there's a lot riding on this, £1200 or so to start with. I've got started buying parts now. Gigabyte motherboard and i9 chip base. I've got my sata and ssd drives, M.2 and will have my ddr4 soon. Thanks for all the great advice 👍

Great Job Mate

Thank you for a excellent video that really assists us newbies who what to have a good DaVinci Resolve workflow.

love your content...

thank you so much. i really enjoy enjoy your videos. ive learnt alot from them. im budgeting for an editing/animation pc. i would suggest having an internal archive drive and a nas system as well as an offsite backup.. ive learnt that your backup has to have a backup

You really made my building my new PC much easier.

Great tips! I use a 980Pro 2TB for my OS. I work on two 970Evos' striped so I have 4TB drive that I work on and store most of my work and I can access it anytime really fast to complete a video from bits here and there. Since it's about gardening I sometimes need to reach to other seasons and years. I use 4 870Evo SSD's for a 16TB single-parity Windows Storage Spaces MainDrive that copies all my material from the scratch disk as well as holding all my archive material. It makes the drives pretty fast for READ speeds and I like having one big drive. Then all of that is backed up to two 870QVO 8TB that are striped into a 16TB drive. And the main drive is also copied to two hard drives, one of which is stored offsite and swapped out every few weeks. I know I have risks striping and RAIDing drives. But with such redundancy and how drives mostly seem to last, I'm not too concerned. I've got another 4TB 870EVO coming and am thinking of going into a double-parity with Windows Storage Spaces. I like your show!

Nice to see how you do it. I have Windows and some games on a Gen 3 NVME drive, 2 partitions - games and windows. A sata SSD for some random emulator games and random files, I guess I don't really need it but I had the drive laying around. Another sata SSD for video exports and again random programs (really organised lol.) A large NVME gen 3 drive for all of my pictures, raw video's and editing programs. Then 1 HDD for photo and video backup and also my brother in law his raw pictures bc he doesn't have his own PC. Then lastly a NAS for another backup of my photos and videos, and it's great to have worldwide access to it.

Love this guy

Just waiting for FedEx deliver my new PC with 3 NVMEs. This video helped me a lot as I was figuring out the configuration prior to ordering it. Until I get a NAS, the external HDDs I've been using for stock assets will be changed over to archive drives. Thanks for the info. Can't wait to set it up!

We will be watching this video over and over there is such good information. We're getting our new custom built by Digital Storm tomorrow. Here's a quick list of what it has; i9-12900K, Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 4800, 1000 watt PS, 1x SSD 2TB 980 Pro, RTX3060Ti. We were wondering what other storage to get now we have the information to make a good decision. We are primarily engineering firm and would like to edit videos as well. Thank you!

Thanks for making this video! I have a question about the storage device for OS and programs. If I already have my programs installed on an SSD with gen 3 speeds (and PCIe connection), is there a significant performance boost gained by reinstalling the programs on a gen 4 SSD (using a gen 4 PCIe slot)? I recently acquired a WD Black SN770 and want to find out if I should transfer Premiere Pro from my Samsung 970 Evo Plus SSD (both storage devices are now installed on my PC and they are both 1TB each).

Good Video 👍 👍

I really can relate to all your videos. Instead of the flooded gaming PC builds on here. I just built a new PC for myself after getting out of it for more than 10 years. My question for you is about setting up a dedicated Cache drive. Would it be better to partition a Gen4 WD Black NVME drive or would a partitioned WD Blue SATA drive be sufficient for cache with any of my audio and video software? Thanks again for all your great content!

How? How is it that while I've been researching on file storage you come out with this great video!

Thank you for the video and the comparisons on the different drives. Puget Systems recommends the Cache/Scratch drive be the fastest, and the OS/software at least a SATA SSD although they acknowledge "some improvements" if you go NVME. Those two are basically inverted from your setup. The explanation for cache being fastest is brief but it's basically the same one you give for putting OS on the fastest drive. If you (or someone reading this) could test both configurations for a future video it would be amazing! I'm thinking that having the cache on the fastest drive would only be truly beneficial with larger projects that use many cache/scratch files, and probably less noticeable with smaller projects. Thanks again!

@themarcosaguila1

Жыл бұрын

That’s right! It should be inverted as Puget Recommends. A SATA SSD although it will load slower , once you’re up and running makes little to no difference when browsing thru one program. If you’re multi tasking and constantly opening and closing windows (outside of your editor ) then perhaps a NVME ssd will benefit you. Otherwise most people will be fine with a $30-50 256-500 GB SATA SSD.

@CreateNowSleepLater

Жыл бұрын

@@themarcosaguila1 Which drive to you render the final project to?

@mediatrix1111

5 ай бұрын

Hi. Can anyone please help me with my query? Can I get a 1 TB NVMe SSD and partition it, using one partition for the OS, and the other partition for the Cache files (Davinci Resolve). Are there any drawbacks to this? Because I am getting a high speed 1 TB Nvme SSD very cheap and so was thinking of partitioning it like I mentioned. Thks.

@FilmMonger

3 ай бұрын

@@mediatrix1111Hello! Assuming you're also installing all your software on the OS partition (not JUST the OS), you won't get the full benefit of the speed of having an NVMe SSD when you're using applications that are accessing both drives. There won't be any drawbacks regarding booting up and opening programs, but once you're using premiere or DaVinci with huge projects with lots of cache files, then it won't perform as fast as it would if they were on separate physical drives. In essence, you're basically connecting 2 drives to one connection and sharing its bandwidth, that being said, NVMes have gotten so fast that the difference will most likely be very minimal, and depending on your needs, probably even negligible. Again, it will affect you more the larger the projects and files you're working on are, but even then, it might not be a huge loss in performance for the cost, and probably a good upgrade if you're coming from an older/regular consumer SSD and even better if you're coming from a HDD. If you're only installing the OS on that drive, and using the other partition for the cache, then the difference will be even less, probably almost negligible.

Hey thank you for this information. It has improved my workflow a lot. Just one question. Which nvme should be faster? Program+OS or Project Files?

in my opinion the best and cheapest way is this: ssd: OS+programs nvme gen 3/4: high bitrate videos+temporary/cache files hdd: for the final renders/exports (whats your opinion of this setup?)

@torsrive8920

Жыл бұрын

My setup is: SSD NVMe 1TB for OS+Apps (3500MB/s) SSD 8TB in RAID0 (2x 4TB) for proxy files and Steam library :D (1100MB/s) HDD 72TB in RAID0 (4x 18TB) for source files, archive, audio and effects library (1000MB/s) That's my storage. Than I use mainstream CPU Core i7 10700K and unusual NVlink RTX 3090 Ti (48GB VRAM). I am rendering everything by GPUs and it is faster and cheaper than setup with EPYC CPU.

Nice video.

Great video! Need to buy more ssds now😅

I learned sth today. Thanks.

You have the best content! I just finished my first build based on all your recommendations. I'm thrilled, thank you! Is it beneficial or advisable to store applications/software, such as Adobe apps, on a separate drive from the operating system (OS) drive? For instance, I'm considering a setup with distinct drives for the OS, applications/software, projects, cache, and NAS archive.

Nice video @Technotice. Just have a question, not really related with the video. sorry. Just curious what kind of second monitor you used on the 5:33 minutes ? Really interisting.

Great tips and great workflow. I have one question though, will the partitioning affect the performance of the SSD (for example 2TB SSD with 4 x 500GB partitions)?

@ungoyone

Жыл бұрын

It will if you're reading/writing from more than 1 of the partitions (also depending on how big the file(s) are).

All of my computers have a similar basic drive layout: - NVMe OS Drive - NVMe or SATA SSD Data Drive - OS Clone Hard Drive, most people never do this - Data Backup Hard Drive using manual Robocopy scripts Then all of my data is backed up daily to a large Synology NAS. And all of my really important files are backed up to a large Google Cloud drive. I also have two sets of external USB hard drives that I back up to monthly.

Good Stuff

This is one helpful video. Very informative. Great work. Just finished building a new desktop pc in a Cooler Master NR200P max casing. The Z790 motherboard got 3 M.2 slot. 1 for OS, 1 for for 3D/Cad project and 1 for Video editting project. Question. If I'm working on my video editing project. Can I use the drive for my 3D/Cad project as a cache drive? Please advise. Cheers.

God, I love this channel.

Great info. I use the intel 670P as it is very budget friendly as I get the 1TB for $79.99 most of the time.

@JayzBeerz

2 жыл бұрын

I just got 3 more for $69.99 each. Newegg is just trying to get rid of them.

@themarcosaguila1

Жыл бұрын

That’s dope. Those slow down when full or transferring large data. There’s great as OS drives since it’s read mainly. Assets , I use external 20GBps SANDISK. Since my camera records directly to it. Your scratch drive should be the fastest honestly.

@technotice picking up on your portable work flow . and for us on the apple side, we will only have one internal HD. Would it not make sense to run the system/os of the external which is going to be a slower system (in one of your past vids you were saying this hd's dont need to be crazy fast) and then for the faster internal, run our projects and media (photos/video) off that hd ?? thanks in advance , loving the videos. just found your channel have watched so many today already . phenomenal content for this sector

That "Nas is Like" on 22:32 had me saying "My poetry's deep I'll never fail" 😅

With current pricing Sata 2.5" is almost same price with Nvme. 1TB fast Nvme for OS and (auto) cache, plus a 2 to 4TB Nvme for assets/data. Backup to at least 1 or 2 HDD every day. No separate temp drive is needed. We are not in 2005, access times are zero.

hello, niceeee videoooo i have two m.2, should i use the faster for OS or for Project?

Is it OK to mix different brand cards? Or should I keep everything uniform?

Really good and on point. And does anyone use PC for creative work? MAC

When rendering, doesn't it still use the cache and projects drive? Meaning the write speeds would be impacted because its reading? Plus, its using data lanes. Is that right or is rendering not really matter which drive? Im thinking making the write drive just a small 4th SSD. Its probably dimishing returns since projects drive and write drive would run off the chipset.

I know I want this and comment for this .. than u reply me u are make video about this .. u r real man and supporter , creator 🥰

For after effects users the cache drive must be the fastest in the system. As it used for the ram previews...

@theTechNotice

2 жыл бұрын

good point! :)

@13thnotehifireviews7

2 жыл бұрын

Can you explain to me the point of the cache drive as I'm not sure I got the point in the video (no bad against this channel, more my basic knowledge), re temp files for after effects. I'm not sure why it would be writing lots of files. Do you effectively set the cache drive in AE settings.

Would you recommend using the Mac minis internal storage for the cache files?

Hey men! Thanks again for this info. In 2020 i saw some video where you explain the workflow in the workstation and i build my pc with that recomendations and its still very great configuration the only little problem it was in that moment i bought a b450 with one M.2 slot gen 3 x4 but its ok its work very nice so i got: 1tb M.2 NVme OS and Programs / 1tb SSD Files/Assets / 480Gb SSD Media Cache/Auto Saves/Scratch and 2tb HDD RAW Files/Proyects

I have a 1TB Gen 3 NVMe as system and programs drive, and an external 1TB Samsung T5 (500MB/s) as projects and assets drive. Which of the two drives would you recommend as a scratch disc and cache drive?

Wouldn't a ram disk be better for temp cache files - as an addition to the ssd and save it from excessive wear ?

So to make a long video short. Use a gen4 drive for is and programs. Gen 4 for projects and assets. Then gen 3 for temp drive . Had for storage and archive. Unless you do judge project files then use gen 4 for everything but archive

I’m planning to get an MacBook Pro M2 Max machine with 1 TB of internal SSD storage for OS and Programs and then use a 2TB LaCie Rugged Pro (rated 2800MB/s) external drive to hold the video files I’ll be working on. Do you think this would be a good combo? Is 1TB of internal storage enough? I’ll only have my video editing software loaded on the machine so I’m thinking 1TB should be more than enough?

I'm building a budget/mid-range build around an i5 13500, RTX 3060ti and 64gb ram and putting it all in a smallish case for space-saving reasons on my desk. Because of this I'm using a mATX Asus board that only has two M.2 slots and as someone else mentioned below, Puget Systems recommend the scratch disk being the fastest alongside the OS drive. This makes sense if that drive is being read and written to constantly in real time as you're editing. So my build would be the recommended 1tb Firecuda for the OS, a smaller M.2 drive (say 250gb) as a scratch disk and another 1TB SATA SSD for the project files (I have a 4TB HDD already for archiving). Is this the most sensible way to go with a limitation of two M.2 drives in my system or should I follow the advice on here and use a SATA SSD for the scratch drive? Advice much appreciated. Mainly shoot 4k btw, with the odd colour grade and affect in Davinci.

If I only have one gen3 m.2 slot would it be better to put the project files on the m.2 drive or on a separate sata ssd? 🤔 Would partitioning the m.2 drive for the project files make any difference?

This video helped me understand a lot so thank you for that! I recently purchased a Firecuda 530 nvme and a Kingston nvme. I edit using Davinci on my MacBook Pro ( 2021 ) apple M1 Max chip w/ 64 GB ram. I am trying to use the Firecuda for my OS and programs ( Ventura / Davinci + Blender ) and the Kingston for my assets and cache files while I edit. Both using thunderbolt ports and in acasis enclosures. However, my Mac is only reading one of my SSDs at a time. I’ve tried looking for answers everywhere, some saying I cannot have multiple SSDs on the Mac. Can I only use 1 of these SSDs for my workflow? And will that help stop bottlenecking in my program? If so, do I put my OS and program on the SSD or my asset and cache files only? Not sure what to do at this point, any help would be greatly appreciated 🙏 thanks I’m advance!

thank you for help. plz help me choose very cheap SSD, Kingston, crucial gen4 etc.

Great and informative video as always, love watching your content :) So if I have a 2 TB m.2, I setup 500GB for the OS and programs as Particion C, I use the rest for projects that I work on as Partition D, and I have a 500GB SSD Kingston that I use for Cache files... is this a good way to go?

@adamhearts9195

Жыл бұрын

how much of a speed difference would it make? it almost seems like it might be an intangible speed difference... possibly unnoticeable,,, I'd like to see someone make a test on it to demonstrate the differences

@mediatrix1111

5 ай бұрын

Hi. Can anyone please help me with my query? Can I get a 1 TB NVMe SSD and partition it, using one partition for the OS, and the other partition for the Cache files (Davinci Resolve). Are there any drawbacks to this? Because I am getting a high speed 1 TB Nvme SSD very cheap and so was thinking of partitioning it like I mentioned. Thks.

@iggorr25

5 ай бұрын

I do not think there are any drawbacks of this, because fo the nature of NVMEs, I use mine like that also now :) @@mediatrix1111

Bro….. Bro ….. thank you, f@cking awesome video

Would be interesting to know the same subject for 3D work (Blender, Pro E and so on).

What is the best 4tb option and enclosure. I cant seem to find a thunderbolt 4 enclosure for the firecuda. Guess the best would be sabrent rocket 4tb with orico enclosure

What about WD Black SN850? Would you recommend that for either OS/Programs or Project files + assets?

@theTechNotice

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, for OS drive very good! 👍

Wish to know, can I merge some of the drives into one big drive like : OS+project drive (use one big nvme gen4 drive like in 2tb) + cache disk (gen3)

I edit my raw photos on an external Samsung SSD T5. Do you think I should switch to an internal SSD or would that external be good enough?

Hello. Can you elaborate the #3 topic, cache / temp. files (assets). In a setup like you describe, #1,#2,#3,#4, I couldn't understand, where, how #3 works .

I ordered a Samsung T7 and am going to use it to both capture footage from my PC and take it with me when I travel. But now I am thinking I need a small cache drive as well. Will using my main C drive for Davince Resolve's caching going to wear out my main drive? Also, watching this video made me wish I had mounted my graphics card upright...