Good luck with your new system.  Jim builds some of the best on the planet, imo.  I know you were concerned about noise, and my StudioCat is VERY quiet.  You'll be very pleased I am sure...and potentially shocked how quiet it really is.  I have a cabinet I made to keep mine in, but I never shut the door, because it's so quiet!.  It's also running rock solid with SPlat.  I have yet to crash using the program on his computer build.  With X3, I might have had two crashes over the year I've had the computer....and I think that was more soundcard related, because that's what locked up.

And I agree with the "no explanation" needed.   I'm on the same page with everyone about the CCC, but really don't like to see other people (not you) bashing in such a sophomoric way. 

I'm sure you're excited!!

I checked here - no openings for self-appointed forum cops.  Sorry.
 
OTOH, I am very encouraged to see that they are hiring!!

Glad to see it"s all water under the bridge.

mixmkr
I use Acronis and it takes a couple minutes on my 95gig used, C drive,  to plop another image on an external.  And that's a total image, not an update.

You can back up 95gig of data to an external drive in 2 mins using Acronis? What is your external hard drive mixmkr? Gotta get me one!

Seagates and Maxtor but actually I typically go to another internal drive that came with my StudioCat and I don't recall the brand they used.  (my couple of minutes might be a couple, couple of minutes :-D...  but seriously, it's VERY fast).

mixmkr
Seagates and Maxtor but actually I typically go to another internal drive that came with my StudioCat and I don't recall the brand they used.  (my couple of minutes might be a couple, couple of minutes :-D...  but seriously, it's VERY fast).

Lol......yes. I thought it might be  several couples:) I too am a big fan of Acronis. I guess that compared to reloading everything it only seems like 2 mins!

I installed ALL the programs of SPLAT because I want CCC to know what updates I need.
 
The installations did not respect the paths set in X3.
 
One of the most annoying results is the paths (ie DP) were reset for presets and programs and samples, that I had fixed the registry to find on the D drive.
 
So now lots of progs need to be adjusted to find the correct samples.
And I have had to copy my saved progs to the buried/hidden DP preset folder to reduce my use of short loud words.
 
After years of pros advising everybody to keep the OS disk small, and put samples,... on separate drives it would seem that the software publishers would have gotten a clue.  Installing AD was a real issue because their installer would NOT recognize where I wanted to put it.
 
And because the AD installer does not automatically create a 64 bit folder it would not install.
 
And who thought putting VST3 files into the common\VST folder is a good idea? A place NO ONE would ever suspect and therefore never backup.
 
Too many folders in too many hidden/buried folders.
 
Well, don't get me started.
 

Whilst I agree that CCC has some issues, what have we really lost? If you know enough to want to keep your c: drive "lean and mean" and have your samples on a separate drive, you will also know that you can still do a manual install and direct it wherever you like, as we all have been doing for years. I still hear about updates from this forum before I see them in CCC! Perhaps we are obsessing too much over the novelty of little green lights?:)

YouDontHasToCallMeJohnson
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After years of pros advising everybody to keep the OS disk small, and put samples,... on separate drives it would seem that the software publishers would have gotten a clue. ...

And who thought putting VST3 files into the common\VST folder is a good idea? A place NO ONE would ever suspect and therefore never backup.
...

1) Yes, we really need the OS and installers to have better support for putting resources in the best places in a system with SSDs and a mix of hard drives. It's about time something serious be done about this.
 
2) The VST 3 spec states the preferred locations:
 
"On Windows platform, the host application expects VST 3 Plug-ins to be located in:

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Priority   Location             Path                                       Comment
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1          Global               /Program Files/Common Files/VST3/          native bitdepth: 32bit Plug-in on 32bit OS, 64bit on 64bit OS)
1          Global               /Program Files (x86)/Common Files/VST3/    32bit Plug-ins on 64bit Windows
2          Application          $APPFOLDER/VST3/ 
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Note: The host recursively scans these folders at startup in this order (Global/Application). "