Blackmagic Forum

Hi,

I'm new to Da Vinci Resolve and have an oldish computer. Is it OK to store your project media, DaVinci Resolve project files and Cache on a single drive? I have just installed a new SSD drive to try and stop choppy video playback during editing.

Appreciate the advice.

Thanks - Brian

I like to recommend a five drive setup as a starting point.

System
Databases
Exports
Cache/Gallery/Optimized Media/Proxies
Media

This keeps things both fast, and organized. But it's certainly not required for Resolve to work. On my personal computer, I break all my own rules and put everything on the C: drive and Resolve still works fine.

Thanks for getting back to me. Will drop all on my SSD drive and see how it goes!

i would sperate "media / caches" and "system / database"
two drives,
one for sys/db
one for media/caches
minimum, it's far to easy to flood the bootdrive by setting caches to run in the bg

i do this for a liveing with real world deadlines, and need to have both speed and security
my machines at the studio and home are set up like this;
- mirrored SSD drives for sys and db
- raided spinning drives for media/caches/exports

it is faster to read from one drive and write to another, but ONLY if the drives are a bottleneck, to get to that point you will need alot of both CPU and GPU to feed data to a drive...

once you have the basic safety sorted with 2x drives so media/caches/exports are never on a sys drive you can look at where your bottlenecks are, you might be better off with one "fast enough" drive for media/caches/exports and a better GPU if the drive is far faster than the machine can feed data to it, and the GPU is a bottleneck

Hello,
I separate it in four drives:
1 external HDD for backup of each project: original media, project export and final project output (normaly 3 To)
1 internal HDD raid 0 for working project (actualy 2 x 16 To): original medias, output tests, temporary effect etc.
1 internal SATA SSD for cache, proxies, gallery (2 To)
1 internal nvm SSD for system, apps, database.
At the moment I work with a 4 camera multicam HD timeline (1 UHD BRAW, 1 UHD FilmicPro h264, 1 HD prores 422, 1 HD h264) and I can play it smoothly