Hi Folks
I have just built myself a new i5 Quad core system with 16gb Ram and two SDD drives running Win 7 64bit.  I have X3 Producer 64bit installed which I'm lovin very much... I've just bought myself a  Roland Quad -Capture for audio interfacing.  I also have a USB Novation Impulse 25 for MIDI
 
My Query...The system is lightening fast at loading, but I still have to push buffers up to reduce latency for projects with MIDI. So I'm wondering about the benefits of installing certain program  elements to run from a RAMDisk to speed things up (i can go upto 12GB).  I intend to keep my exports going to standard SSD.
 
Has anyone else done/tried this?
 
What are the best software elements (VSTs?) to load from a RAMDisk?
 
 
PS I've run LatencyMon and don't appear to have any issues being flagged when i've disabled virus checkers etc.. 
 
Comments appreciated
Regards Mark

Do you have your OS and SONAR on one SSD and your sample libraries (for MIDI/VST instruments) on the other SSD?  Putting your samples on a second/separate drive with help immensely (especially on a SSD).  And yes, loading projects and VSTis/samples into RAM will definitely help.
 
I remember something about Win 7 has a limit on how much RAM it can access.  And that only 7 Pro can access double the RAM.  Not to sure, but it was something like that.  Win 8, however, has no limit.
 
Kind regards,
 
tecknot

During recording and playback, the bottleneck is more often CPU than disk I/O. Aside from starting up programs faster, the SSD is going to have its greatest DAW-related benefit when using DFD sample libraries.