hey it's mark here from hector skis.com
have you ever wondered what is the best
external drive the video editing well if
you have this is the video series for
you let's go straight over to premier
gal hey everyone and welcome back to
another episode of editors essentials
the series is sponsored by editors keys
and I'm premier gal and I'm going to be
leading in this series and teaching you
about the best video editing hardware as
well as some editing tips and tricks to
help speed up your workflow in this
episode we're going to be talking about
the best drives for video editing so
there are two types of drives there's a
hard drive and a solid-state drive but
what is the difference between these two
and why would you buy a SSD instead of
an HDD or vice versa so why are
solid-state drives faster well solid
state drives store data on microchips
while hard drives store data on a
rotating platter and then use magnetism
to read and write data so every time you
request to store or process data on a
hard drive it'll spin it to read it in a
solid-state drive is simply opening up a
file instantly because it has its own
processor like a computer and it uses
flash based memory to process data and
today most laptops and computers come
with solid-state drives for internal
storage but external solid-state drives
are becoming more and more popular you
may be asking well premier gal why would
I even want to buy a hard drive if
solid-state drives are so much faster
well right now solid-state drives are
more expensive than hard drives and they
are currently available in much smaller
storage sizes so for example it's rare
to find a solid-state drive in the
consumer market at least that's higher
than 2 terabytes so if you need more
than 2 terabytes of storage which if you
edit a lot of video you will need
eventually you may need to stick with
hard drives but you can always purchase
multiple solid-state drives to get more
storage and it will just cost more
as for cost a solid-state drive can cost
between 50 cents to a dollar 50 per
gigabyte and hard drives cost around
five cents to ten cents per gigabyte so
to give you perspective the cheapest 1
terabyte solid-state drive I could find
on the market runs for about three
hundred and fifty dollars for one
terabyte and the cheapest hard drive
that's also one terabyte runs for fifty
dollars so it's about three hundred
dollars more for a solid-state drive
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so my recommendation would be to buy a
larger hard drive like a 20 terabyte
hard drive that can be like your
archiving your backup and then you can
buy a smaller external solid-state drive
to store all of your local and current
projects from and eventually move them
over as a video editor who edits tons of
videos video editing can take a lot of
time so spending a little extra more
money on solid-state drives can make a
huge difference so I definitely
recommend working locally off of
solid-state drives for video editing of
course you're probably gonna have a few
hard drives and it's always good to have
some spares you can backup your files
too but definitely work from solid-state
drives all right so that's all for this
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