Raid 0 for scratch disk and media cache drive

[ingeborgdot]

I am building a new computer which will be used for many things but a lot of video editing and some photo. I was wondering if anyone that is familiar with Adobe Premier Pro and After Effects could help out or anyone that thinks they know.
I was wondering if a person could use 2 SSD drives in raid 0 for the scratch disk and media cache drive. I know raid 0 is not as safe as only one drive or any other kind of raid but I can get two smaller SSD drives for a great price and much cheaper than one larger one. I know it will even make the SSDs faster. Anyone care to comment? Thanks.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

It'll work. If you really can get, say, a pair of 128GB SSDs for less than the cost of a 256GB one, then... sure, why not?

If you're talking SATA SSDs, though, I wouldn't expect to see a big performance difference vs. a single SSD. It'll be faster, but they're already so fast to begin with that you won't really notice the difference.

Single drive configurations have the advantage of being simpler.

If you're already booting from an SSD, and your applications are loaded on an SSD, I'd just be using your boot drive as a scratch disk too.

 

[ingeborgdot]

I'll be booting from an NVME SSD. I have found a nice 256GB SSD for a good price. 2 of them are $20 cheaper than the cheapest 480GB or above.
Everything I've read and talked to people about Adobe scratch disks is to get them off of your OS drive but I could be wrong.
I am just wondering if a 512GB Raid 0 is big enough for a scratch disk and media cache?

 

[sdifox]

Have you actually run into write related slowdown with one ssd?

Striped is of course faster, but if one is already fast enough, striping won't help.

Anything adobe benefit greatly with more ram.

If your nvme is pcie and has greater write speed than the ssd on sata, uae thatbfor scratch and install app and os on sata ssd.

 

[ingeborgdot]

I have not ever had anything but an SSD for os and all other were hdd drives. Too many bottlenecks for what I did so I'm trying to speed it up.
My nvme is not large enough I don't think for my scratch drive as it is only a 256GB and I was told probably more than that.

 

[sdifox]

I have not ever had anything but an SSD for os and all other were hdd drives. Too many bottlenecks for what I did so I'm trying to speed it up.
My nvme is not large enough I don't think for my scratch drive as it is only a 256GB and I was told probably more than that.

So get a pair of ssd and stripe them. At least it shoikd not be slower than one ssd. As long as it is just scratch duty.

Ram trumps all though.

 

[ingeborgdot]

I'll have 32GB of 3200speed ram from Corsair Vengeance.

 

[ingeborgdot]

Instead of raid 0 what if I went with another NVME M.2 card.
If I went with an NVME M.2 drive for my scratch/media cache, does anyone know if my board will support it? I have the M.2 slot already used for my OS and that is not going to change. Does my board support 2 at the NVME speed if I got an adapter and used a PCIe slot with an NVME M.2 drive? I can't seem to find any info on it right now.
I have the Gigabyte AX370 Gaming 5 board. I'm sure it will work but I don't know if it will be slower because of already using the M.2 lane? Does anyone know?

 

[sdifox]

Instead of raid 0 what if I went with another NVME M.2 card.
If I went with an NVME M.2 drive for my scratch/media cache, does anyone know if my board will support it? I have the M.2 slot already used for my OS and that is not going to change. Does my board support 2 at the NVME speed if I got an adapter and used a PCIe slot with an NVME M.2 drive? I can't seem to find any info on it right now.
I have the Gigabyte AX370 Gaming 5 board. I'm sure it will work but I don't know if it will be slower because of already using the M.2 lane? Does anyone know?

That would be pointless. Just get a pcie ssd if you want to do that.

 

[ingeborgdot]

You are the expert here. I am just asking, why is it pointless?? Why PCIe ssd and not just another ssd?

 

[sdifox]

You are the expert here. I am just asking, why is it pointless?? Why PCIe ssd and not just another ssd?

M2 is the connector, it is directly hooked up to pcie 4x. So getting a pcie ssd is the same as getting a m.2 ssd with a pcie adapter.

I would imagine most pcie ssd are in fact m.2 with adapter.

 

[ingeborgdot]

Okay, got it. Since I already have taken up the one m.2 spot on the board, will another one on my board have the same speed as the one already on the board slot? Can my board handle it? I have the Gigabyte AX370 Gaming 5. I have tried to figure it out but since I have not paid much attention to the PCIe slots in the past because it never really affected me I don't know much about them.

 

[sdifox]

Okay, got it. Since I already have taken up the one m.2 spot on the board, will another one on my board have the same speed as the one already on the board slot? Can my board handle it? I have the Gigabyte AX370 Gaming 5. I have tried to figure it out but since I have not paid much attention to the PCIe slots in the past because it never really affected me I don't know much about them.

Should be fine. Unless you fill every pcie slot then you have to start worrying about lanes.