Video Editing

[Brado78]

Hey Gang, I was wondering if editing videos bad for an SSD?, because HDD's are just too slow :\

Thanks

 

[yinan]

I use SSD for everything except backups. Maybe if you overwrite the whoel drive every day it could be bad, but general use go for it.

 

[LTC8K6]

Hey Gang, I was wondering if editing videos bad for an SSD?, because HDD's are just too slow :\

Thanks

Nothing is bad for a modern SSD.

Banish the thought.

Treat it and think of it like a HDD.

Okay, not literally nothing. Shooting it would be bad.

 

[ronbo613]

I use an SSD in my video editing system, no fires or explosions yet

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I use an SSD in my video editing system, no fires or explosions yet

Really? I saved an mp4 file to mine and was visited by The Dark Lord. I died like four times, only to be resurrected so that He could continue the torture.

That was a very unpleasant week.

 

[UsandThem]

It depends on how much you write data to the SSD. That's how the manufacturers rate them internally and on warranty stipulations. There was a user here who was going to use one to download 300 GB daily from torrents, and that might not be the best use of one.

That being said , and before people read that first paragraph and proceed to type their response to argue:

http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead


Most last well beyond the manufacturer's rating. You will likely replace it for the greatest, latest well before it actually dies. They endure a lot of data written just fine for 99.9% of users. I own a 840 EVO, 850 EVO, Sandisk Ultra II, Sandisk x300, Crucial MX100, and a old Kingston. I do moderate editing, and all drives are fine and all show healthy.

For example, the 850 EVO 500 GB drive has a warranty of 5 years and/or 150 TB written. Most will exceed those writes before it has issues. The 1 TB version is rated for 300 TBW.

 

[Brado78]

The SSD is a Sandisk Ultra II, Thanks Guys

 

[Glaring_Mistake]

Don't know how well SanDisk Ultra II would perform during video editing.

But it is not made for heavy workloads and uses compression in order to improve performance and reduce wear.

And the endurance is not very good with around 400-500 write cycles.

 

[TheRyuu]

I can see the performance of an SSD to be useful in video editing although I suppose you may be able to get away if the files aren't too large (e.g. they fit in RAM cache). If you're doing a lot of seeking the SSD may be a lot faster than a traditional HDD. You'll still probably want a HDD (or several with some kind of redundancy) for backup and storage of stuff like source material so you can save some space on your SSD with stuff you're not actively working on.

 

[ronbo613]

Use the SSD for your video editing program and write large video files to a mechanical hard drive.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Don't know how well SanDisk Ultra II would perform during video editing.

But it is not made for heavy workloads and uses compression in order to improve performance and reduce wear.

And the endurance is not very good with around 400-500 write cycles.

It uses compression?

I thought that the only controller that used that "trick" was SandForce. And that SandForce controllers worked only with MLC NAND.

Yet, the Sandisk Ultra II is known to have TLC NAND with an SLC cache.

Tell me again, in more detail, how that all works, with this specific drive? I'd like to learn something if I'm incorrect.

 

[grimpr]

You need an MLC SSD with very good performance consistency for doing video work and editing on it since it will fall to steady state pretty fast, cheap drives using TLC will decline to abysmal levels of performance when stressed with video, from my experience the best SSD for this job, keeping good performance under extreme stress over time is the Extreme Pro by Sandisk, a great and underapreciated drive in my opinion, its strength lies in its low latency and excellent steady state performance.

 

[VirtualLarry]

You need an MLC SSD with very good performance consistency for doing video work and editing on it since it will fall to steady state pretty fast, cheap drives using TLC will decline to abysmal levels of performance when stressed with video, from my experience the best SSD for this job, keeping good performance under extreme stress over time is the Extreme Pro by Sandisk, a great and underapreciated drive in my opinion, its strength lies in its low latency and excellent steady state performance.

I would also look at the OCZ ARC 100, some of their server drives (currently on firesale as refurb at Newegg), or try to find a LAMD-controller based SSD, like the Corsair Neutron GTX or the Seagate 600 / 600 Pro.

 

[Glaring_Mistake]

It uses compression?

I thought that the only controller that used that "trick" was SandForce. And that SandForce controllers worked only with MLC NAND.

Yet, the Sandisk Ultra II is known to have TLC NAND with an SLC cache.

Tell me again, in more detail, how that all works, with this specific drive? I'd like to learn something if I'm incorrect.

Don't know how the compression the SanDisk Ultra II uses works, in fact I find it odd that it may not use the SLC-cache when dealing with large amounts of incompressible data even when it fits into the SLC-cache.

Link to example of that right here: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/08/18/sandisk_ultra_ii_sata_iii_ssd_review/7

There are other controllers who perform better with compressible data though I do not know any beside the ones used in the SanDisk Ultra II (Marvell 88SS9189/88SS9190) and SandForce that rely so much on compression to perform well.
At least in the SanDisk Ultra II they do, may not do so when used in other SSDs.

Example of another controller with improved performance when dealing with compressible data: http://www.thessdreview.com/our-rev...ew-480gb-asynch-flash-takes-whole-new-look/3/