Do you want to speed up your video editing? One of the best ways is by improving your hard drive speed and in this video, I'm going to be sharing a few tips on the best hard drives for video editing and storing your media and video files. 

Coming up. Hey, what's up, Abhishek here with Techy Hydra. Bringing you the best tips and tools for building your influence with online video. And on this channel, we do a lot of strategy videos as well as tech gear reviews and tip videos, just like this one. 

Let's jump into the tips. So I'm super pumped because Western Digital is sponsoring this video and Western Digital, of course, is one of the leading brands in this space and I've been using the products for decades, literally. Whether that's PC builds or in my laptops and they've always worked out great for me and lately, I've been using the WD Blue drives in my setup. 

So when it comes to video editing the organization and the storage of your media files are very important. Everything from your workflow, all the way down to your hard drives and storage solution and having multiple, and how they work together. And every piece actually matters and can improve the performance of your video edit. Especially if you start doing 4k or you want to do some After Effects or Cinema 4d motion graphics, or even just adding effects to your footage. 

You've probably can relate if you've been editing you know when things slow down or when they don't go that fast and believe it or not hard drives play a big role in that. Solid-state drives on the other hand are typically smaller. The capacity usually is not as high and they usually are more expensive. 

However what's been cool is that the price of solid-state drives has been coming down, their capacity has been going up and this WD Blue line is actually a super affordable solution for solid-state drives. Now I actually use a combination of solid-state drives, traditional hard drives, and even external drives inside of my video editing PC build. But in order to get the fastest speed possible I've been using SSD drives for the video editing and actually working projects, and I've been using traditional hard drives, which again are much larger or more affordable, for just storing and backing up footage. And here's my biggest tip about workflow and having the maximum speed for video editing. I actually use three drives. 

The first drive is the operating system. 

So I'm running Windows on a PC here and that's installed on an SSD drive that runs Windows, it runs Adobe software, and Adobe Premiere, which I edit off of, and it is dedicated just to software and the operating system. 

The second drive is dedicated just to the working files and the temp files from the video editing software and so that's something that you can go into your settings and actually assign where the files, when you're actually editing are stored. And having those separate from your operating system speed up video editing. 

But then there's actually a third solid-state drive for the media files themselves, so if we go and do a shoot and shoot a bunch of 4k footage, all that footage will go on that drive, then that footage will be pulled into the video editing software, and then Premiere will create those temp files and whatnot, and then the software is run off a separate drive. So if you want to increase your speed of video editing consider a three drive workflow and this can even work in a mobile situation.

My laptop has a drive with the OS installed, it has a data drive that's separate, and I can also use an external as well and that could be the third drive. And staying organized with a workflow like that, allowing each drive to handle each of those pieces of the workflow will produce massive results that if you've never tried it before, I would love to hear how it goes for you. And for that three drive workflow, I've been using one of these Western Digital Blue one terabyte SSD drives for my video files and my media files. 

Now, I love this Drive because I've been doing a lot of tests with it and it's introduced some really cool technology and one of those things is, it's called 3D NAND. Now what that basically means is that in the past they're trying to pack all this data in solid-state drives but it was horizontal. 

It was as if it was ramblers in a neighborhood, it was a bunch of one-story houses and what happened was they just kept trying to get him closer to closer and closer together and there weren't very many gaps between, if you will the memory modules or whatever you would call them, and thus there would be some faults and some errors and sometimes the drives wouldn't perform. 

So what 3D NAND started to do was essentially made skyscrapers, made towers, and so instead of just going horizontal, they started going vertical with that data storage. So that actually means a lot of things for performance. First of all, this drive is blazing fast. On paper, it's rated for 560 megabytes per second read time and 530 write time. Now I actually benchmarked it and it came in at 488 58 on the road and 433 on the write. 

Still incredibly fast and of course there are all kinds of different things that potentially go into those actual speeds. And so when you compare that to a traditional hard drive, I benchmarked one recently and it came in at about a 123 megabytes a second read time and a 130 write time. This solid-state drive is three to four times faster than a traditional hard drive. So you're gonna experience crazy speed for everything. Additionally, 3D NAND technology helps the drive consume 25% less power than other drives. 

Now if you use that in like a PC build or some kind of a desktop setup that's not as important but if you were to use this in a laptop, everything counts when it comes to that power draw so that can give you some battery life extension. This drive also has an industry-leading mean time to failure, which is how drives are measured basically how long they're gonna last, and it also has several error-correcting technologies. So the bottom line is it's super reliable. 

Now these Western Digital Blue SSD drives come in a couple different sizes. There's a 250-gigabyte version, a 500-gigabyte version, one terabyte, and also two terabytes. This is the one terabyte version and at the time of shooting this video this comes in right around 280 dollars here in the U.S. Of course check out current prices on the various sizes. 

It's cheaper if you go smaller and it's more expensive if you go larger. And actually, another popular use case for solid-state drives is gaming systems. In fact, after this video, this particular drive is going to go into my PS4 Pro. 

I've heard killer reports from people saying that the games run faster and load faster if you use a solid-state drive, especially one that has a performance like this. But that's it for my three drive solid-state workflow but let's talk about a couple other drives that I use in my setup. When I'm done with working on a project but I don't necessarily want to move the files to a full archival backup solution, I'll go to an internal drive as we mentioned that is a traditional hard drive because you can get larger sizes for cheaper prices. 

And actually, the drive inside of this computer over here is also a Western Digital Blue drive but it is a hybrid four terabyte drive and hybrid means it's a combination between a traditional drive with some SSD features. And what's cool about that is you still get speed, you still get performance, it's not as fast as a solid-state drive but again the speed doesn't matter as much.

I just like having a little bit of speed for transfer and things like that and so that 4 terabyte drive that lives inside of that computer comes in at right around 109 dollars here in the U.S. on Newegg at the time of shooting this video. 

And so you can see the price discrepancy there but there's also the speed discrepancy and so when things are just used for backup or archival, speed doesn't matter as much so I definitely recommend internal drives that are much more affordable with the larger sizes. 

Which are typically found in traditional hard drives, not SSDs? And then finally for additional backups and archiving your video files in your media files, I like to use external hard drives. 

Now I actually did a whole video about that and I'll link that up on the YouTube card as well as the description below, but I recently purchased a brand new drive that I'm super pumped about that's from Western Digital as well. 

Now, this guy right here is a 20 terabyte external hard drive. Pretty crazy because it fits in a relatively small package for the size and what's cool about this is you could use all 20 data stripped and that basically means it's a raid array that'll make both drives run, basically twice as fast. Inside of here is traditional hard drives, not SSDs but when they're rated together you'll have 20 terabytes of space, blazing speed, or if you want to use it for backup you can actually mirror the drives so that one is backing up the data and the other drive is backing up that drive. 

So you could have a lot of peace of mind if you just want a drive to offload your footage to and know that it's backed up. And what's cool about some of these new drives is that you have USB 3.0 plugs here but also USB-C plug on here as well, with blazing fast speeds for a lot of modern technology. And so definitely a piece that I'm excited to integrate into my workflow. I've been using external hard drives and I'm excited to kind of consolidate them and move to this one soon. 

So there you go that's kind of an overview of my video editing storage and workflow and definitely check out the YouTube description where I will list out some additional details and product specifics of the exact things that I use in my setup. Question of the day, what are your tips when it comes to video editing workflow and what are you currently using for storage, for backup, for how you're editing your content. 

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HDD v/s SSD

So, in this video, let's compare these two drives in aspects like speed and performance, working principle, cost and storage capacity, and many other aspects. So, first of all, let's compare these two drives in terms of their speed and performance. 

Now, the technology of hard disk drive has improved significantly over the past two decades. And the data density of this drive has increased tremendously. But the speed of hard disk drive hasn't increased at the same pace. Typically, the access time of today's hard drive is in the range of a few ms. And the sequential read or write speed is typically around 100 MBPS. 

If you are thinking the speed of the hard drive is not bad then let me tell you that the access time of RAM and the cache memory which is used in the computer is in the range of nanoseconds. Which is significantly less than the access time of these hard drives. 

So, even if you have a very high-end CPU, coupled with graphics card and RAM, still you will not be able to extract the best performance out of that system if you are stuck with the slow hard disk drives. Now, here don't get me wrong. The with top CPU and GPUs, the performance of the system will definitely increase. 

But because of the limitation of the hard drive, the system boot time and the opening of the applications will not be that fast. While on the other end, if we talk about the SSDs, they are much faster and have access time typically in the range of microseconds. 

And typical sequential read and write speed is in the range of 400 to 500 MBPS. And in fact, even it is possible to achieve the sequential read and write speed in the range of Giga Bytes per second using these SSDs. So, now let's look into the internal structure of these drives, and let's find out why SSDs are so fast and hard disk drives are relatively slow in comparison to these SSDs. 

So, if you look inside the hard disk drive, it consists of a rotating disk, which is commonly known as the platers. So, these platters rotate at the typical speed of 5400 or 7200 RPM on laptops. And it can go up to 10000 RPM in desktop computers. And in some enterprise hard disk, the speed can go up to 15000 RPM. So, in these hard disk drives, the data is stored magnetically on these platters using the head. And typically the data is stored in this hard disk drive in the form of tracks and the sectors. 

Now, as it involves the mechanically moving parts, there is a limitation on the speed at which the data can be accessed or written on these hard disk drives. On the other end, the SSDs are designed using flash memory. And to be precise if I say, they are designed using the NAND flash memory. So, as these SSDs are designed using the NAND flash memory, and does not have any moving part, they have very fast access time and very low latencies. 

So, apart from the flash memory, the SSD also contains the microcontroller and the small cache memory. So, using the microcontroller, flash memory cells can be accessed or programmed. And using the cache memory it is possible to store the incoming and the outgoing data temporarily. Ok, so now let's compare the two drives in terms of the form factor. So, today's hard disk drives are typically available in two form factors. 

For desktop, it is available in a 3.5-inch form factor, while for a laptop it is available in a 2.5-inch form factor. 

On the other end, the SSDs are available in many form factors. The most common is the 2.5-inch form factor, where these drives can be used or replaced in place of hard disk drives. Apart from these, the mSATA and the M.2 SSDs are available in very small form factors. 

And they are used in ultrabooks and tablets. Alright, so now let's compare these two drives in terms of the system interface. So, the system interface defines how these drives are connected or interfaced with the system. So, the earlier hard drives were connected to the system using the PATA interface. Which is known as the parallel ATA? But today's hard drives are connected to the system using the SATA interface. While enterprise hard drives are connected to the system using the SAS protocol. 

On the other end, if we talk about the Solid State Drives, mSATA and SATA hard drives are connected to the system using the SATA interface. 

While M.2 SSD can communicate with the system using either SATA or PCI express bus. So, now if we compare these drives in terms of the storage capacity then for the hard disk drive, 1TB capacity is most common in desktops and laptops. But for desktops, even 10 Tery Bytes of hard drives are commonly available in markets. 

And if we talk about the SSDs, then as of now the SSDs are available from 120GB up to 4TB. For laptops typically, it is available from 120 GB up to 1TB. 

While for the desktop it is available up to 4TB. But if we talk about the cost, then these SSDs are much costlier than the hard disk drives. As of now the cost per GigaBytes for SSD is almost 3 to 4 times the hard disk drive cost. But as the demand for SSD is growing, the cost is also reducing. And perhaps one day, it will become as cheap as today's hard disk drives. So, now let's compare these drives in terms of power consumption and reliability. 

So, as these hard disk drives inc=volves the mechanical moving part the power consumption of this drive is more than the SSDs. And they are more prone to the damages in case of shock and the vibrations. So, now finally let's compare them in terms of data durability. So, in terms of data durability, hard drives are more durable and data can be stored for longer times without being powered up. Apart from that as we have seen, these SSDs are designed using flash memory. 

And because of that the number of programs or erase cycles that can be performed on these SSDs are limited. Typically, it used to be in the range of 10000 to 100000. And depends upon the quality of the controller as well as the internal structure of the flash memory. 

Now, some manufacturers also provide the endurance rating for these SSDs. And typically it is defined by the term drive writes per day. It means that the number of times the user capacity of the drive can be written per day over the warranty period. For example, if you have 100GB of a drive, which has a DWPD rating of 10, it means that 1000GB or 1TB of data can be written into this drive every day over the warranty period. 

So, basically, this term defines the endurance rating for the SSDs. But for most of the users, this rating is quite significant. And even if someone uses this SSD quite extensively then also it will work reliably over more than 5 years. 

So, overall SSDs have many advantages over the hard disk drives. But as of now, these SSDs are quite costlier than the hard disk drives. So, if someone is looking for a big storage pull, with a reasonable cost then he can go for the hard disk drive. While on the other end, if someone wants very fast performance and willing to pay extra money for that performance then one can go for the SSDs. 

So, that's it for this video. I hope in this video you understood the basic differences between the SSD and hard disk drive. So, if you have any questions or suggestions do let me know in the comment section below.

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