did you have a look for any shadow copies on your os disk?
Yes, nothing on there, it is just too small a disk, so will be getting it swapped over the Xmas period - ghopefully it will go smoothly 
Don’t know if it’s been mentioned above? And this is just what I do, albeit on a desktop.
C: OS is on a 120Gb ssd, nothing else.
D: 1Tb ssd for Software. If an installer won’t let me choose a different disk to install on, then I copy everything from the install onto this disk, then change the registry to suit.
You won’t be able to do the following on your laptop as not enough physical space:
E: 500Gb ssd, purely for photoshop and lightroom.
F: 500Gb hdd, intermediate storage for my photos. Eveything from my drones and cameras goes in here until I get time to sort through it. What I keep gets moved onto external drives, the rest gets deleted.
Probably better ways for me to do this but since moving my OS to its own ssd the desktop is much quicker to boot. I also feel programs run better/faster, but that’s probably just my imagination. I’m going to have to try something like davinci on it, but I think (know) it will struggle as it’s a lowly i7 6700 and an old Radeon HD7800 graphics card and 32Gb RAM. Works fine for photo processing though
For what it’s worth, I’m working on my laptop at the moment which only has a relatively small SSD which is fairly full. Mindful that video takes up a lot of space, I have all my video files on an external HDD.
I made sure I went with a FAST 2TB USB-C external drive (a Crucial X6), and I have my video projects including the raw footage on that drive and export finished videos to that drive and it doesn’t lag at all surprisingly.
Added benefit, is that the drive fits nicely in my drones peli-case (in one of the unused battery slots) and it means I can switch seamlessly between editing on my desktop and my laptop.
One thing I will do though, is probably buy an identical second drive to run as a backup as I am slightly nervous I will lose my files at some point from corruption, damage, or actually losing the drive altogether.
I’m also very surprised that my now 5 year old laptop handles video editing well, although it was a fairly powerful machine when I bought it as I got it for photo editing originally.
On my desktop (which is mainly for gaming) I do something very similar to others above, I have an M.2 for my OS and very little else. Everything else goes on to a second internal M.2 drive.
I beefed up my pc about a year ago, ssd hard drives 32gb of ram a decent graphic card and a good cpu. When I render a 4k video it takes 1.5 mins to render it, even if I render 4k video @ 60fps at max take 6 mins. When I look back at my old system it would take approx 1 hr to render 4k@25fps.
I love Mac and have a 16” MBP M2 pro . I have been on macs for over 10yrs now and would never use a windows pc again …”when you go Mac you never go back”.
As they say each to their own
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the spec on my last pc upgrade and cost
[AMD Ryzen7 3800X £299.99 Inc VAT
2 [Samsung 500GB 970 EVO PLUS] £153.98 Inc VAT
[Aerocool Bolt Midi Tower Case £34.99 Inc VAT
[2x16G Cors DDR4 3600 £199.16 Inc VAT
[Gigabyte B550 Gaming X V2] £99.98 Inc VAT
Total £788
3 year old article in a PC mag.
Before the advent of the M series chips
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Just an update for you guys, up to a wek ago I had a i7 6700K running at 4K, M2 980 Pro 2TB and 16 GB RAM. NVIDIA GTX 1660 Super and it handled Resolve (Free) 18.6 quite well. 3 minutes of 4K would take around 12 min to render. I bought the following used kit ROG Strix X299-E Gaming II MB, I9 10900X, 64gb G.Skill TridentZ , Asus ROG Strix LC-360 AIO. The i9 has 10 cores and 20 Threads compared to the i7 which had 4 Cores and 8 Threads. The overall improvement is significant rendering an existing project time reduced from twelve minutes to just under 5 min is great. Bearing in mind that this is the Free version which doesn’t use the GPU. Looking to get the speed editor which also brings a Studio version licence later on. The motherboard, i9 CPU, 64GB RAM and Strix cooling cost me £400, very pleased with the upgrade.
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