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2013/12/04 17:52:52 (permalink)

SSD Question

Hi all...
 
I'm going to try to eek out another few months from my Q6600 based system... the current bottleneck seems to be sample streaming, which is to say I am making greater use of sample libraries, and larger libraries, and it is killin me!
 
I'm looking at a 250-ish GB SSD, I've heard good things about Samsung 830/840 series and Intel 530 series, but wanted to check in here for the collective experience from people that use computers the same way I do...
 
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    mettelus
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    Re: SSD Question 2013/12/05 07:23:15 (permalink)
    I just posted to this thread and discussed some points you will want to know if you are getting your first SSD.
     
    I personally use my SSD as the OS/Program drive, since that drive gets a lot of "read only" activity and ideally suited for the SSD. My libraries are on a 7200 rpm HDD, and although they will not load as fast as an SSD would pull them, I have also seen my SSD act flaky in heavy read/write environments (mine is a fairly old model though as well).

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    Re: SSD Question 2013/12/05 08:12:59 (permalink)
    I have one of the Samsung SSD's. Very solid drive (so far). If you are running 64-bits, and have the RAM to load lots of samples, the SSD will definitely help. Without the first two, you probably won't see much improvement.
     
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    Re: SSD Question 2013/12/05 09:36:16 (permalink)
    In addition to what's said above Bill, I also have a 250GB Samsung 840 series (which are pretty good) which I only use for my OS/software and that gots filled up very quickly (I believe I have about 124GB available to use). I have a similar setup as Mettelus with my samples being on a 3TB 7200RPM HDD......I know I have at least 200+ GB of sample material, so I'm waiting for the prices to drop for a large SSD drive.
     
    You may want to consider a larger SSD than the 250GB for your samples (although this can get quite expensive) as it'll definitely get filled up quickly.......especially if you have a lot of GAS. :))

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