Solid State Drives, Sonar and Workflow

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2012/05/03 15:39:41 (permalink)

Solid State Drives, Sonar and Workflow

I'm thinking of a new computer build and am giving consideration to a SSD. So my question is, how do you set thngs up? Like this?: OS and Sonar on the SSD drive. You keep the project you are actively working on on the SSD as well. Everything else gets archived on the regular hard drive. Sound like the best way to do it? Would there be any significant hit to performance just leaving your active project on the regular HD and read/write there (with sonar on the SSD)? Is there a better way than what I've laid out? Thanks
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    Re:Solid State Drives, Sonar and Workflow 2012/05/03 15:54:04 (permalink)
    Are you using any sample libraries that stream from disk? If so, I would reserve the SSD for that. I'm using them that way myself.

    Personally, I don't care how fast my system boots. I only care about how well it performs when it's up and running. So I use regular drives for OS/Software and for projects/audio, and I use SSDs for sample streaming. If you use streaming samples quite a bit then it makes a huge difference in performance.

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    Re:Solid State Drives, Sonar and Workflow 2012/05/03 16:43:05 (permalink)
    Be aware of the curse of SSD's. I just had one that gave me abunch of headaches. I was trying to set up East West Symphonic Orchestra on a ssd that I have. The samples loaded okay but when it came time to play them back into the East West PLAY browser, they wouldn't load up making the whole program useless. I then re-installed the samples on to my C: Drive and now the program works perfectly. So be aware, you may have some routing issues with them. At least I did.

    My Ivory II program is on a ssd drive and works perfectly...so go figure. Maybe I just have a bad ssd ...???
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    Re:Solid State Drives, Sonar and Workflow 2012/05/03 16:59:55 (permalink)
    Some streaming sampling but it's not a heckuva lot. So, Scott, I can assume that maybe SSD is overkill for me? That's the kind of thing I want to know, though. The routing of information and programs accross a variety of drives and how well they play with each other (and factoring in where you have certain programs installed in the first place).
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    Re:Solid State Drives, Sonar and Workflow 2012/05/03 17:37:36 (permalink)
    Yeah, if you're not doing huge projects, then SSD is probably overkill.

    The basic drive arrangement for optimal performance is 3 drives...

    * Drive 1 for OS and software.
    * Drive 2 for project files and audio files.
    * Drive 3 for sample libraries that stream. You can put ones that don't stream on here too if you'd like, just for organizational purposes.

    Scott

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    Re:Solid State Drives, Sonar and Workflow 2012/05/03 17:42:59 (permalink)
    garrigus


    Yeah, if you're not doing huge projects, then SSD is probably overkill.

    The basic drive arrangement for optimal performance is 3 drives...

    * Drive 1 for OS and software.
    * Drive 2 for project files and audio files.
    * Drive 3 for sample libraries that stream. You can put ones that don't stream on here too if you'd like, just for organizational purposes.

    Scott

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    * Author of the Cakewalk Sonar ProAudioTutor video tutorial series: http://garrigus.com/?ProAudioTutor
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    Re:Solid State Drives, Sonar and Workflow 2012/05/03 18:25:10 (permalink)
    I've got some great news...After seeing that the samples played well off the C:Drive I decided to try re-formatting the SSD drive and just copy the good files there. IT WORKED !! So the problem was the files never installed properly onto the SSD in the first place....now the SSD is working and giving the proper samples to the PLAY Browser !! YAY !!!!!!
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    Re:Solid State Drives, Sonar and Workflow 2012/05/03 18:39:46 (permalink)
    Cool. Thanks a million!
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