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?

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. 

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.

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.

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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I transfer 'finished' projects from ssd to hdd , helps clean up the audio folders as well
ric

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 ;-)

Yup, it's all on SSD now.

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.