Yes, omnisphere can stream samples, I even turned that feature off and let it load the whole sample, same thing...so yeah...I am definitely looking at getting an SSD in the near future to help with this.....
I am concerned though of the life of SSDs, they usually are only good for a year or two and then they start getting corrupted and bam...one has to buy a new one, unless someone else here has had longer life with their ssd's than what's been reported with them..
 

Actually the Samsung 850 pro has a 10 year warranty but is a little more costly as well. I have two 850 evo's that have been working flawlessly. One never knows the life span of any drive really. http://www.samsung.com/gl.../support/warranty.html

thanks for the info....that's good to know...
I have been researching a lot about SSDs and the reports and posts say that after a couple of thousand hours, the actual memory cells start getting corrupt and can't write anymore to those particular cells...this has been a known issue since SSDs first showed up a few years ago...
 

I too bought a Seagate hybrid, and have decided it does not offer anything good for an audio environment.  I use it for storage, backup, and little used programs.  SSDs are great for read speed, but you don't want anything trying to write to them many times a second ....

I am starting to realize that......definitely going to have to go with a true SSD drive:)
 

einstein36
Yes, omnisphere can stream samples, I even turned that feature off and let it load the whole sample, same thing...so yeah...I am definitely looking at getting an SSD in the near future to help with this.....
I am concerned though of the life of SSDs, they usually are only good for a year or two and then they start getting corrupted and bam...one has to buy a new one, unless someone else here has had longer life with their ssd's than what's been reported with them..
 

Now the "writes" are involved in the longer warranties.  There are probably some old WD 30GB IDE drives that haven't died yet.

that's good to know that most manufactures warranties are now including writes into their warranties....
 
  

not when your writes exceed the years

einstein36
Yes, omnisphere can stream samples, I even turned that feature off and let it load the whole sample, same thing...so yeah...I am definitely looking at getting an SSD in the near future to help with this.....
I am concerned though of the life of SSDs, they usually are only good for a year or two and then they start getting corrupted and bam...one has to buy a new one, unless someone else here has had longer life with their ssd's than what's been reported with them..
 

dec 13 on my C:/
Intel 240GB SSD
XP OS
 

That's so true..