I upgraded to the Vertex II 60 gig Hd, for program files and I use a Raptor 300 gig 10,000rpm Hd for all my content and I have a few other 7300 rpm Hd for back ups. I must say the ssd was the single best upgrade I made better that adding more ram . The responsiveness is amazing ,completely worth $100.00. When SSD's are lower in price I will upgrade my content drive in a heart beat.. for now my Raptor drive is doing great..Love my SSD..

I use an SSD for my OS with Sonar and other apps as well as VST's.  When VST's have samples, then I place the samples on a regular hard drive.  I do use another SSD for LA Scoring Strings which loads them much faster as well as being able to stream quite a few more notes.  Haven't had to freeze tracks since putting LASS on the SSD.

Jim

I have 3 ssd drives. 128gb system, 128gb X1 Projects and audio, and 256gb samples.
 
Boots and closes super fast, loads projects with lots of samples and audio super fast, moving files around super fast. It's just super fast. Expensive, but I believe worth it.

Something to always think about anyway...

Make sure the you set the default/temp/working folders to
another drive.

M

SSD's are kind of like re-writable CD's DVD's etc. You are limited in the amount of times you can write to it, and each time you do, it degrades ever so slightly. That's why defragging is bad as well as an unconditional format. A quick format just makes the data so it is not seen and can be overwritten but it's still there IIRC.

That's why it's important to buy the extended replacement warranty on them that Newegg and others offer because eventually they are going to die. Those old huge 60MB HDD's with the big metal tops from the 286 days laying in the bottom of our closets will still fire up long after we've gone through our 5th or 6th SSD. :)

That said, I can't wait to get a couple when the price per Gig comes down a bit on them. :)

Bub


SSD's are kind of like re-writable CD's DVD's etc. You are limited in the amount of times you can write to it, and each time you do, it degrades ever so slightly. That's why defragging is bad as well as an unconditional format. A quick format just makes the data so it is not seen and can be overwritten but it's still there IIRC.

That's why it's important to buy the extended replacement warranty on them that Newegg and others offer because eventually they are going to die. Those old huge 60MB HDD's with the big metal tops from the 286 days laying in the bottom of our closets will still fire up long after we've gone through our 5th or 6th SSD. :)

That said, I can't wait to get a couple when the price per Gig comes down a bit on them. :)

 
 
True and its a huge discussion on the INTERNET about how long it it will take before they die.
 
 
I'm not worried, experts say life cycle are between 5 to 20 years before that happen. Technically some say 51 years.
Hopefully you change your computer before that ever happen. If you use SSD for WINDOWS 7 disk and Programs it doesn't matter if it fails. That takes no time to install again. You should always backup all data anyway.