Hard Drive Speed for Video Editing

harvey.l12 · 5 May 2015 at 13:47

I'm wondering if there is a big difference between a 5600RPM and a 7200RPM hard drive when editing videos, the videos are stored on the hard drive and the program is run of my SSD. Is the editing process of the video such as buffer time affected a lot?
Will a Western Digital Green be good for storing videos while being edited?

bledd · 5 May 2015 at 14:25

I would use large SSDs, then use something like a WD Blue or Green for storing them when not in editing use..

harvey.l12 · 5 May 2015 at 14:31

Yeah i would love to so that but i don't have the money :/ but i guess even storing them on a internal WD Green will be much better than editing from an external HDD live i have to do at the moment?

bledd · 5 May 2015 at 16:15

Run hdtune speed tests, pick the quickest drive