Which external disk for video editing?

First of all, thank you for everyone here on the community for explaining how this whole external drive thing works.

So now I've been looking for external disks for my video editing (as boot disk to put all my files on). I have some disks I think are really good but I think there are a lot of experienced video/audio editors on here so I wanna know if these disks would work well and which one I should get. :)


the websites are in dutch but If you look up the name of the disk you will find them on an English website.


The external disks:


LaCie Mobile drive USB-C 4TB 

https://www.coolblue.be/nl/product/826282/lacie-mobile-drive-usb-c-4tb-zilver.html


WD My Passport for Mac 4TB

https://www.coolblue.be/nl/product/855327/wd-my-passport-for-mac-4tb-type-c-blauw.html


LaCie Rugged Mini USB-C 4TB

https://www.coolblue.be/nl/product/740987/lacie-rugged-mini-usb-c-4tb.html




MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Aug 15, 2020 11:22 AM

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Aug 15, 2020 3:48 PM in response to jendmr

If you are using the external as a boot disk and/or to edit/render movies/artwork/images, then an external SSD is the best choice. If you are only using it as a TM or clone backup, an SSD is an overkill of sorts since you can have it back up in the background, so the cost of an SSD is fine if you with to be spendy, but it is really not necessary for that purpose (just my opinion).

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