Which 4 disk, 4TB Thunderbolt 2 RAID would you purchase?
A) Four, Sandisk 960GB SSD's, striped RAID 0, with a read/write speed of 1500/1350 or
B) Four, WD Black 1GB 2.5" HD's striped RAID 0, with a read/write speed of 550/500?
I know numbers make this an easy choice, but here is the one caveat to consider:
I am editing corporate/industrial 1080 and 4k footage, using FCPX 10.3 on a 2015, Retina 5k, 27", 4 GHz, quad core i7 iMac with 24GB of RAM.
So here's my real question, in the end, does the speed of my computer's processor negate the SSD speed I would be paying 4x the price for?
I know that the SSD's will copy and transfer files WAY faster, but, in the end, will my renders really be faster with SSD's or will the render speeds ultimately be decided by the speed of the iMac's processor speed?
Thanks in advance,
Chris