Hard drive setup for gaming/video editing

[wilsonian]

Hello,

I've recently upgraded my rig and finally moved away from all magnetic drives (the PC was 10 years old!). I've got a Samsung NVMe 1tb 970 drive which I've used to install some of the games I've intended to play regularly. However I also want to do some video/photo editing which are currently stored on my NAS.

The work flow would be to transfer them to the PC, do my work then move them back. One concern I have is how much transfering of files I'll be doing to the NVMe drive and was wondering if installing a second drive would be better? I could also then install games I don't play that regularly.

How do people run their storage these days when they have a high transfer work load?

[kalniel]

What are you concerned about regarding transfer to the NVMe drive?

[wilsonian]

erm TBH if it breach any kind of read/write limit.

[Jonj1611]

It would be years before you breached any kind of limit

[kalniel]

erm TBH if it breach any kind of read/write limit.

You're guaranteed something like 600TB of writes, which you could probably extend with over-provisioning. How much are you currently writing daily/weekly? (You can see TB written in Samsung magician)

[wilsonian]

Currently just 1.3tb written with 647gb free. Seems to be OK then to carry on using this.

[easyrider]

It’s always better to have the video footage on a separate drive than your os...

[wazzickle]

Make separate partitions for your OS, games and workload, keep track of how much is in each and trim the fat regularly, have a 2tb+ ssd as secondary storage and use as and where necessary.

[kalniel]

It’s always better to have the video footage on a separate drive than your os...

If you read the post, I know it was many months ago, thanks for the necro, that's exactly what they're doing. It's held on a NAS