4K Video Editing

[midnight lance]

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/GWZCqR

[rich minnow]

looks good

maybe get a bigger SSD

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/ryk3jH

[proud scarab]

just wait 1 day for 4080s

please

[rich minnow]

4080s will not be $1500

4070 super is $1350 on discount, and $1500 MSRP

I highly doubt you’ll find a better deal for any GPU at this price

Cause aussie pricing sucks balls

[vernal escarp]

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/jQtfRK why not a smaller drive for the OS itself and a larger drive for games/video storage

[proud scarab]

Oh wait this isnt us mb

[rich minnow]

Not needed. Just partition the ssd.

[vernal escarp]

due to trim and how ssd's work, creating a smaller partition is ill advised to do, you use a smaller ssd instead

[rich minnow]

Price doesnt make sense

Add another 50 bucks to the ssd budget and you end up with a 4tb NM790, which is a very fast SSD

Also these days it really doesnt matter

With how fast and reliable SSDs have become, you really dont need to baby them or think about the use case at all

That’s assuming they want to create a separate partition in the first place, which i really dont see the point of these days

Apps go wrong so often that you’ll want to wipe the entire thing and reinstall everything about once a year anyways

[vernal escarp]

which tbf is an ideal large storage drive

[vernal escarp]

and when they do go, it's easier to wipe the boot drive leaving everything that they wanted to keep on the second drive

[rich minnow]

Well no, you’d also want to wipe your second drive

[vernal escarp]

this worked fine with hdd's but manually doing that on a ssd it's really not advisable

[rich minnow]

I still need to do so anyways cause a lot of professional apps apparently do not like having their user files and app files on 2 separate drives

I do use a lot of professional engineering apps though, which are often times quite jankily made ngl, so ymmv

[rich minnow]

Why

You wont feel the perf/endurance hit

[vernal escarp]

you actually would, and again it relates to both trim and how data is organised on a ssd

[rich minnow]

this post explains it best

SSD's dont trim the same way hard drives used to

"partitions" arent actually separated in the SSD, it's the controller telling the rest of the computer that there is a divide. it is entirely virtual, data gets moved around to random positions regardless of partition

so when an SSD trims, instead of marking a physical position in the NAND clear, it marks the data as "unneeded" instead. it only deletes said data when said NAND position needs to be written to again, either when the SSD gets full or if the wear leveling algo says so. so theoretically there should not be any performance loss caused by trim due to multiple partitions