DO NOT BUY ONE OF THESE DRIVES!
First, my specs:
Dell Latitude D830
2.4Gh Core Duo
2GB Ram
Emu 1616m Cardbus AI
Windows XP SP3
SONAR 7.0.2
Tested with a current project. 9 audio tracks, 13 softsynth tracks. Alot of resource heavy effects also
In same system with Fujitsu 7200RPM drive, I get bad cracks and pops and dropoutsdue to CPU spikes unless I freeze all/some of the synths. Once all but a few are frozen, the project plays nicely..
Onto the SSHD.....
Actually seemed to play better with all of the synths unfrozen, still sounded like crap with tons of crackles and pops, but no dropouts. After freezing 11 of the 13 synths, this is where the problems start. So after freezing, that leaves 20 audio tracks and 2 synths....not only loaded with pops, but it sounded like I was running the entire tune though a stutter effect, literally. And it seemed to play noticibly slower than the project tempo.
Not very scientific testing, but enough to convince me to not even bother testing recording(which is where I thought the problems would appear in the first place).
Also FYI, the XP and SONAR installs seemed to take for ever......but then at the same time, the SampleTank install seemed to fly. Weird stuff.
Anyway, definitely not good for audio apps, I'm gonna see how it works as a Visual Studio machine.
post edited by noonie - 2008/10/08 14:40:20