Mechanical drives are where the separate drive philosophy really developed from. You can also include cache files easily with an OS drive on an SSD. If you have an SSD then cache and media files can go there without issue. This means SSD drives can read and write far more files in a given time segment than mechanical drives. SSD drives have a latency in microseconds where as mechanical drives have a latency in milliseconds. The rules are different with SSD drives versus mechanical HDD’s. Here’s a comment by 2 different individuals regarding this: X4, NVMe 1.3 64L V-NAND 2-bit MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V7P512BW) Now I’m a bit worried that my workstation is not optimal for After Effects, considering all my video files, my OS + AE application + Disk Cache are all going to this one drive (since RAID 0 combines both of my M.2 into one drive making it a lot faster, but less stable).
I’m currently running a RAID 0 with 2, Samsung 970 PRO M.2 drives (full desc. “For improved performance, choose a disk cache folder on a fast hard drive or SSD separate from your footage, and allocate as much space as possible.”
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