Running projects on SSD drive or not?

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2015/11/09 01:54:49 (permalink)

Running projects on SSD drive or not?

I'm rethinking my storage options. Currently, I have all my projects on my SSD drive (together with the operating system and Cakewalk Platinum). I have my loops, content, completed wave files etc on a second drive - a regular HDD. However, I'm running out of room on the SSD but have heaps left on the HDD.
 
Will it make any major differences (speed wise) if I transfer all my projects to the HDD and run them from there? I'm not worried about load times, but actual performance. Any thoughts?

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    slartabartfast
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    Re: Running projects on SSD drive or not? 2015/11/09 04:31:23 (permalink)
    A 7200 rpm mechanical drive should work for running your Sonar project and audio files. You can certainly move any projects and associated audio that you are not currently working on off the SSD, so even in the unlikely case that your mechanical drive will not keep up with Sonar, you would only need to have one project on the SSD to get any additional performance benefit it might provide. Per project audio folders make that kind of thing pretty simple. 
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    Re: Running projects on SSD drive or not? 2015/11/09 08:19:16 (permalink)
    OS, Programs, plugins on C:/ drive SSD

    Projects and Sonar content on 7200 SATA3 HDD

    Samples on 7200 SATA3 HDD

    If you have the money to put samples on an SSD drive by all means do it.

    The above is a minimum standard drive configuration.

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    lawajava
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    Re: Running projects on SSD drive or not? 2015/11/09 09:28:32 (permalink)
    SSDs in general and larger capacity SSDs have come way down in price. Unless you're completely cash-strapped I'd suggest everything should be on SSDs.

    Except your external hard disks used for backup and archiving.

    Two internal 2TB SSDs laptop stuffed with Larry's deals and awesome tools. Studio One is the cat's meow as a DAW now that I've migrated off of Sonar. Using BandLab Cakewalk just to grab old files when migrating songs.
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    Re: Running projects on SSD drive or not? 2015/11/09 09:41:10 (permalink)
    SSDs have a "write lifetime" right now. After so many writes they go read-only on you so it's best to run your OS from SSDs and regular hard drives for projects.
     
     
     

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    Doktor Avalanche
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    Re: Running projects on SSD drive or not? 2015/11/09 09:47:30 (permalink)
    Remember black Friday round the corner and cyber Monday..
    post edited by Doktor Avalanche - 2015/11/09 09:57:55

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    Re: Running projects on SSD drive or not? 2015/11/09 14:11:29 (permalink)
    I transfer 'finished' projects from ssd to hdd , helps clean up the audio folders as well
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    Re: Running projects on SSD drive or not? 2015/11/09 14:39:38 (permalink)
    eric.birchall
    I transfer 'finished' projects from ssd to hdd , helps clean up the audio folders as well
    ric


    If I ever actually finished a project this would work for me ;-)
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    Re: Running projects on SSD drive or not? 2015/11/09 15:00:53 (permalink)
    Yup, it's all on SSD now.

     
     
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    Re: Running projects on SSD drive or not? 2015/11/09 22:01:50 (permalink)
    bitman
    SSDs have a "write lifetime" right now. After so many writes they go read-only on you so it's best to run your OS from SSDs and regular hard drives for projects.


    That "write lifetime" is pretty much longer than your machine's lifetime. Not like a short runway.

    Two internal 2TB SSDs laptop stuffed with Larry's deals and awesome tools. Studio One is the cat's meow as a DAW now that I've migrated off of Sonar. Using BandLab Cakewalk just to grab old files when migrating songs.
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    Re: Running projects on SSD drive or not? 2015/11/10 05:07:03 (permalink)
    Thanks folks for your responses! Much appreciated!
    I think I'll take the plunge and shift all my projects to the HDD. I still have many older projects that I did before shifting to per project folders, but this is probably the time to consolidate everything. See you in 6 months when I'm done!!!

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