Video editing/processing on an SSD not healthy for it?
January 30th, 2020
Is that true?
I have a SSD in my laptop these days.
If it is bad for the lifespan of SSD, what are the solutions?
Plug in an external HDD and edit the videos from there?
Thanks
p.s RIP Rick Mayall
By the time it “goes” there will be a MUCH faster one out , better and cheaper
People will say anything without much experience backing it up. It could be just a bad/faulty ssd they got that die sooner than the average.
Like said. By the time it die. Youll be upgrading to a much better one and faster one. My current ssd is 2 years old now. I install/uninstall plenty of games and apps…… Edit plenty of videos…. Format countless of times. Its still not dead. I am waiting for it to die so I can have a good reason to upgrade to a newer ssd lol.
People may think that the processing of a video file is the same as a defrag, which is “stated” as not healthy for SSD drives.
That’s the only reason they would think that.
I’d just enjoy it with everything possible..
Exactly enjoy! it and use it SSD is fast after all is that not what you want speed when encoding decoding etc. etc. you live life once me i nearly died and now i say WTF why care if it dies unlike me lol then buy a NEW one but it aint gunna die soon just like me! lol Oh and yes i have an SSD 250GB Samsung EVO
I read somewhere that it's not healthy if you edit and process lots of video on an SSD?
Is that true?
I have a SSD in my laptop these days.
If it is bad for the lifespan of SSD, what are the solutions?
Plug in an external HDD and edit the videos from there?
Thanks
p.s RIP Rick Mayall
If you can try and get a HDD (Portable if using Laptop) and transfer the files to that, then all when importing the footage into your editing program all the SSD has to do is Cache the files (less use on the SSD)
To improve your SSD live span use these SSD tweaks
Windows 7: http://www.overclock.net/t/1133897/windows-7-ssd-tweaking-guide
Windows 8/8.1: http://www.overclock.net/t/1240779/seans-windows-8-install-optimization-guide-for-ssds-hdds
An SSD with average use should last 3-5 Years.
I read somewhere that it's not healthy if you edit and process lots of video on an SSD?
Is that true?
I have a SSD in my laptop these days.
If it is bad for the lifespan of SSD, what are the solutions?
Plug in an external HDD and edit the videos from there?
Thanks
p.s RIP Rick Mayall
Never heard of this one?
But it’s a fact that it’s not ideal too use Disk Imaging software for SSD drives cause it slows down the drives performance.
Which would be kinda pointless of having a SSD drive, being they are suppose to be super fast.
It’s weird that SSD drives don’t realistically support Imaging Backup software.
As for me, I like to have a backup image with at least 32GB install with all my favorite programs an drivers included, which usually amounts to like a 12GB Image file.
I personally don’t have a SSD drive as of yet, but I could not see myself doing a fresh reinstall of Windows (+drivers) an every program I use on a daily basis every time in the event of a catastrophic incident.
Thanks all.
One more thing.
Is it faster to process from an external drive, then save the finished product on the internal SSD? – So the SSD doesn’t have to process to the same drive as its reading from.
That sounds to me like when you try to copy two films at once from an external drive, they both slow down of course.
If I used an external HDD to store my unedited video files, and plugged it in and did not transfer them over to my SSD, but rather just work on them from the external drive, then processing and writing the finished product to my SSD, would that make the process faster, and maybe prolong my SSD life too ?
Thanks again !
external uses USB , which is slow. usb2 for around 30mb a sec
usb3 for around 70mb a sec
ssd still around 350-500 mb .
way faster, dont look into saving it’s processes.. there is no point..
just use it and have fun with it