SSD drives?
I'm about to upgrade to a maxed out MacBook Pro. It's main use is editing films. I'm often working with multicam setups, and now 6K. I'm wondering whether maxing out the laptop with 8 TB of SSD drives will be of any advantage in the speed department? Normally I keep the computer relatively clean, just apps, and do all my editing on external 7200 rpm drives.
Would temporarily dumping the media (of a particular film) onto the 8TB of SSD drive IN the computer ... editing the film ... and then outputting everything to a backup drive ... be any faster than: having only 2TB of SSD drive in the computer, all media on an external drive, and editing as I've been doing for years; meaning keeping the computer mainly for apps, and all media stored on external drives.
Also ... if the answer is the latter, 2TB's SSD in the computer, all media on external drives ... is there any speed advantage to using SSD drives for the media? Years ago when I first asked about this the answer was that, for editing video, there was no real speed advantage with the SSD drives, at least in terms of the media itself. Though the apps will apparently run much smoother and faster on SSD drives.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated, I'll be setting up a lease or purchase later today ... and I'm still trying to figure out what to pack into the MacBook.
All ears, Ben