tyacko
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SSD OS Drive
All, I just recently purchased an SSD (solid state drive) to replace my current OS drive. My current OS drive was a dual boot (XP/Vista 64-bit). Using True Image, I was able to move both images (as they were just partitions on the same drive) onto the SSD drive. The SSD drive is quite nice (160g X25 IBM drive). Having worked most of the weekend with it, I found the experience to be much smoother. Boot time was much faster. Applications (like Sonar 8.3) ran much smoother for me. I had no audio drop-outs with a couple larger projects I worked with this weekend. I also started a new project (on my XP side) and no hitchs. Definitely something to consider if you are looking to upgrade your PC without necessarily spending all the cash on a new PC or Motherboard/CPU/RAM option. Additional Info: Keep in mind, if you are considering getting a SSD make sure that your motherboard (most do today) have a SATA controller. Also, the drive I purchased was a SATA II supported drive. This gives more throughput than the original SATA release. Just thought I would share. Tom
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RE: SSD OS Drive
2009/04/17 16:45:55
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ORIGINAL: tyacko
All,
I just recently purchased an SSD (solid state drive) to replace my current OS drive. My current OS drive was a dual boot (XP/Vista 64-bit). Using True Image, I was able to move both images (as they were just partitions on the same drive) onto the SSD drive. The SSD drive is quite nice (160g X25 IBM drive). Having worked most of the weekend with it, I found the experience to be much smoother. Boot time was much faster. Applications (like Sonar 8.3) ran much smoother for me. I had no audio drop-outs with a couple larger projects I worked with this weekend. I also started a new project (on my XP side) and no hitchs.
Definitely something to consider if you are looking to upgrade your PC without necessarily spending all the cash on a new PC or Motherboard/CPU/RAM option.
Additional Info:
Keep in mind, if you are considering getting a SSD make sure that your motherboard (most do today) have a SATA controller. Also, the drive I purchased was a SATA II supported drive. This gives more throughput than the original SATA release.
Just thought I would share.
Tom
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Brandon Ryan [Roland]
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RE: SSD OS Drive
2009/04/17 17:58:51
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Yes to me SSD really changes the "feel"of using the computer. Everything seems much snappier, not to mention quieter.
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midimal
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RE: SSD OS Drive
2009/04/17 19:06:10
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ORIGINAL: Brandon Ryan [Cakewalk]
Yes to me SSD really changes the "feel"of using the computer. Everything seems much snappier, not to mention quieter.
Lets pray also long term stable!  <---a lillte scared of new technology (possible) disasters  Ok time for next backup :)
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RE: SSD OS Drive
2009/04/19 21:59:45
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Well considerin that there is no more mechanism , i'm really more confident than with actual drive .....but brands are dropping so many different range of drives that it can be disturbing and heavy to choose the right one !!
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RE: SSD OS Drive
2009/04/23 20:02:23
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Your topic made me wonder about external SSD drives using Firewire or USB 2.0 (when they come). I wonder if the interface will be able to keep up with the speed of the drive? That could make for a mean portable system. BTW, do you keep synth samples on the SSD?
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RE: SSD OS Drive
2009/04/24 00:15:04
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Hi can also recomend OCZ Vertex (starting @Firmware 1275!) 120GB with 64MB Cache!
Very nice - speeds (read/write)
I will be glad when the prices drop on these. If they do - the hard drive industry as they know it will feel like they just got shook like a rug.
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RE: SSD OS Drive
2009/04/24 10:04:18
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Your topic made me wonder about external SSD drives using Firewire or USB 2.0 (when they come). I wonder if the interface will be able to keep up with the speed of the drive? That could make for a mean portable system.
BTW, do you keep synth samples on the SSD?
NO! only an esata would work, the FW/USB bus is too slow and right now SSD still sucks for recording to only good use is the OS drive
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RE: SSD OS Drive
2009/04/24 10:47:34
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And right now SSD still sucks for recording to only good use is the OS drive
I would say the new 1TB OCZ SSD should be good enough for audio recording (the only problem it is still too expensive for most of us) It is made up of four 256 Gigabyte MLC-based OCZ Solid State Drives and 256 Megabytes of ECC DDR2 RAM. This adds up to a total storage capacity of 1 Terabyte and promises maximum read rates of 600 MB/s and read rates of 500 MB/s. The sustained write speed is said to be 400 MB/s. http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ocz_z-drive-500x254.jpg 400MB/s should be ok for recording audio hahahahhahaa
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RE: SSD OS Drive
2009/04/24 11:14:29
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Your topic made me wonder about external SSD drives using Firewire or USB 2.0 (when they come). I wonder if the interface will be able to keep up with the speed of the drive? That could make for a mean portable system.
BTW, do you keep synth samples on the SSD?
NO!
only an esata would work, the FW/USB bus is too slow
and right now SSD still sucks for recording to only good use is the OS drive
Actually SSD's are awesome for playing back projects and for loading samples from. It's debatable about current situation of recording to them. For huge simultaneous track recordings a SATA RAID is still arguably better, but for the way many of us record they are arguably perfectly sufficient.
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jcschild
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RE: SSD OS Drive
2009/04/24 12:10:18
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And right now SSD still sucks for recording to only good use is the OS drive
I would say the new 1TB OCZ SSD should be good enough for audio recording (the only problem it is still too expensive for most of us)
It is made up of four 256 Gigabyte MLC-based OCZ Solid State Drives and 256 Megabytes of ECC DDR2 RAM. This adds up to a total storage capacity of 1 Terabyte and promises maximum read rates of 600 MB/s and read rates of 500 MB/s. The sustained write speed is said to be 400 MB/s.
http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ocz_z-drive-500x254.jpg
400MB/s should be ok for recording audio hahahahhahaa
while the thruput on that puppy is absurdly good (assuming that it really gets that with sustained read/write) the biggest issue we have with SSD as a recording drive is the fill issue. read up on it... while i generally dont like to link to gaming review sites they did a super job http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531 FYI i love my new OCZ Apex (with the right firmware) but had to move alot of stuff off my OS drive to be able to use that 120G.
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RE: SSD OS Drive
2009/04/24 12:13:38
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ORIGINAL: Dale Aston
Your topic made me wonder about external SSD drives using Firewire or USB 2.0 (when they come). I wonder if the interface will be able to keep up with the speed of the drive? That could make for a mean portable system.
BTW, do you keep synth samples on the SSD?
NO!
only an esata would work, the FW/USB bus is too slow
and right now SSD still sucks for recording to only good use is the OS drive
Actually SSD's are awesome for playing back projects and for loading samples from. It's debatable about current situation of recording to them. For huge simultaneous track recordings a SATA RAID is still arguably better, but for the way many of us record they are arguably perfectly sufficient.
i guess i should have added "for live gig playback as well" playback is indeed nice, particularly for gig'n however for peple with large samples sets its still rather costly and for playback of projects the fill issue comes into play as well, or can if you make frequent changes.
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RE: SSD OS Drive
2009/04/24 14:08:48
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i guess i should have added "for live gig playback as well"
playback is indeed nice, particularly for gig'n
however for peple with large samples sets its still rather costly
and for playback of projects the fill issue comes into play as well, or can if you make frequent changes.
Do you mean the free-blocks-problem on SSD-Drives ? Didnt release OCZ the trimm tool for that?
post edited by midimal - 2009/04/25 06:17:03
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RE: SSD OS Drive
2009/04/29 05:13:00
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Does any of you know / have experience about SSD's tolerance to alternating power level or, first of all, power peaks?
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RE: SSD OS Drive
2009/04/29 09:43:08
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not good for any electric component buy a GOOD UPS
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RE: SSD OS Drive
2009/04/29 10:47:40
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I'd probably treat it as a workhorse drive, and since they are not the biggest, I'd set up things so that any work gets offloaded ASAP to slower drives, never give it a chance to get even close to near full.
Good thing to know tho - thanks for that link.
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RE: SSD OS Drive
2009/04/29 13:13:17
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