The bcachefs filesystem

Posted Aug 24, 2015 16:57 UTC (Mon) by zlynx (guest, #2285)
In reply to: The bcachefs filesystem by ibukanov
Parent article: The bcachefs filesystem

Use external drives for video. Even the pros do it that way. The last video guy I worked with several years ago used about six external Firewire drives on a Mac and used different drives for source and output and backups. Very nice streaming behavior that way. I don't think anyone would want to do video processing on a spinning laptop drive no matter how big it is because the IO speed and IOPS are abysmal.

I've been using laptops with SSDs for many years now and I haven't needed more than 128 GB. This one has 250 but I kept a Windows partition so Linux only has about 160 GB available. If I need more space I have 128 GB memory sticks and 1.5 TB external backup drives.

The bcachefs filesystem

Posted Aug 24, 2015 18:23 UTC (Mon) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942) [Link]

I commented about the general need for storage even on consumer level when ssd is just too expensive. Plus consider reliability. From physical point ov view storing information as magnetisation is just more reliable than those triple-level cells holding charge. So as long as there is need for backup, the demand for magnetic media should stay.

As for ultimate performance during video editing my personal experience is that maxing ram and enabling zram or similar has more effects than using faster ssd.