Get An Ssd Drive For Your Home Studio!
Todd Simpson
Sep 23 2017, 07:13 AM
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If you have not yet done so, GET AN SSD DRIVE for your main Home Studio Computer. This one upgrade will change your life. It sure changed mine smile.gif Also, the price has finally gotten reasonable. I found a 960 GB SSD on amazon for $265!!!

That's nearly a terabyte of SSD for under 300. I put an SSD in both my laptops and it was night and day difference. Loading huge apps is a snap, and loading huge sound databases, e.g. ez drummer etc. is spiffy quick.

https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-960GB-Solid-...words=960gb+ssd


Here is a speed test from this drive in my current laptop. This is with the drive currently full.
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Sep 23 2017, 11:23 AM
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Nothing more important than a proper SSD if you want appropriate working speed!

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Sep 23 2017, 12:15 PM
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I have an SSD on my PC and it definitely runs things faster than the old HDDs

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Todd Simpson
Sep 29 2017, 05:58 AM
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It's true smile.gif I know it seems like an indulgent expense, but it's really just a matter of survival imho. How much time to people lose to bad sectors on drives, data corruption, slow performance, lag/latency, etc. all of which are pronounced when using standard hard drives. There is just less to go wrong when using a hard drive with zero moving parts!! Not to mention, the performance is so darn fast that the drive is no longer the bottleneck of the entire system! You can play back as many tracks as your cpu can handle, in real time smile.gif

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QUOTE (Roadside @ Sep 23 2017, 06:23 AM) *
Nothing more important than a proper SSD if you want appropriate working speed!



Oh yeah. Traditional drives might hit 50 Megabytes per second throughput, while SSD can hit 400 MEGABYTES PER SECOND! IT's a Massive increase and everything form launching big Apps, to playing back wads and wads of tracks, doesn't choke ones rig whil using an SSD smile.gif I gave up on standard drives for my music computers main boot disk and replaced all three with SSD and have been happy ever since. Zero issues. I finally sold the 13 inch dual core macbook and kept the two 15 in quad core machines. The difference between dual and quad core really becomes apparent when you start using several instances of plugins that can hog resources.

Having a quad cpu, 16gb ram, SSD rig is a thing of beauty and has cut my production head aches to ZERO. This spec used to be "high end" but now it's considered "Standard" so anything less is now considered "vintage"! smile.gif When it comes to computers, "Vintage" is NOT a good thing.

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I have an SSD on my PC and it definitely runs things faster than the old HDDs

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Sep 29 2017, 01:27 PM
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I run a 128GB SSD in my PC, with 2 off-board drives for storage. Thinking about installing another SSD internally for storing Music related bits, Loops, Midi files that sort of thing!
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Sure! The only thing that can keep up in standard drive land is some sort of RAID (using two or more disks you get the speed of however many drives are in use if you use what is called "RAID 0" or zero redundancy, pure speed)

Even then, it depends on HOW the RAID is connected. For EXAMPLE!!!

*USB 2.0 (Speed grab of a 2 drive raid 0 using usb 2.0 cable to connect)
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Seems a bit slow eh? Well, let's crank it up to...

*FIREWIREW 800 (unless you have a mac, this means adding a firewire card to your computer typically)
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Still a bit on the pokey side eh? Let's turn it up to...

*USB 3.0 !!!
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So as you can see. It really takes a USB 3.0 RAID striped Raid 0, to compete with SSD even remotely. My USB 3.0 Raid is just a couple of old laptop drives in a "naked" two drive caddy. She's ugly, but she gets the job done and she was cheap!


QUOTE (Sensible Jones @ Sep 29 2017, 08:27 AM) *
I run a 128GB SSD in my PC, with 2 off-board drives for storage. Thinking about installing another SSD internally for storing Music related bits, Loops, Midi files that sort of thing!
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That's pretty impressive Todd.

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Aint it though? From a little box that costs very little, that will support drives from laptops, desktops or both, in to a spiff, cheap, fast raid. Gotta love technology smile.gif Here is one for $22 US that supports both size drives and or both sizes at the same time!!! Nice smile.gif If you have spare drives, put them in one of these and BAM you have a fiast raid array that will keep up with the last screen grab, e.g. 200 Megabytes Per Second!! In other words, as many streams of video and music as you could ever need in your DAW your VIDEO EDITING APP or BOTH at the same time smile.gif without any hiccups!

I record Video Directly in to Premiere while recording Multi track audio direclty in to LOGIC, at the SAME TIME when I'm making a vid. I don't get a single hiccup at all. I have been recording to my new dual disk "Naked Raid" to test it out and it's been a champ. You can use any drives you have laying about.You don't have to buy new ones. Or if you have drives in an external enclosure, just yank them out, or in an old computer, yank em out, stuff em both in here and bam. smile.gif Any operating system, any drives.

*Link to this device on Amazon.com $22.99 (We avoid trying to pimp to much but this is such a steal I thought I'd share)
https://www.amazon.com/DBPOWER-Docking-Dupl...sb+3+drive+dock

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That's pretty impressive Todd.
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I'll look at a Double dock, I have a single one that I use as an Offboard Drive for a while.

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The double just has two slots and lets you do "software raid" which means the cpu in your computer is doing the job that a chip would do in a hardware raid setup. Still, the cpu use is minimal and results in blinding speed compared to a standard external drive. Mind you, this kind of speed only happens on USB 3.0, so if you connect with USB 2.0 it really won't help that much to have a RAID. You can have a 10 drive raid but if it's connected usb 2, then the usb becomes the bottle neck and you get stuck around 40MBps. USB 3 is the cheapest way to get serious speed that I"ve found for external drives. The only thing close that I've seen is THUNDERBOLT ports but those are more a Mac thing. As a matter of fact, the only reason I have usb 3.0 is that I have thunderbolt going to a dock that has usb 3 ports on it smile.gif My mac is 5 years old so it doesn't have on board usb 3 ports.

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I'll look at a Double dock, I have a single one that I use as an Offboard Drive for a while.

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I've been wondering why my laptop (music recording computer) is slower than my same spec tower that I use for general use. I'd forgotten that I fired an SSD into the tower a while back, this thread jogged my memory.

The drive in my laptop is partitioned, is there a way to clone the whole thing so I can just copy it back or do I have to go the old route of reinstalling everything? Back in the Win95 days I used to use Norton Ghost to clone my C: in case of any problems,. D: was always a separate physical drive as it is in my tower but I don't have that luxury with my laptop.

Cheers for the heads up Todd

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On a Mac you can just use a simple little app called SUPER DUPER. On windows there are many choices of software to do the same thing. Also, you can buy one of the little dual dock drive caddy's I mentioned in a previous post and just hit one button and it will clone any drive to any other drive. But as far as software, here is a list of 10 windows utilities for doing just that smile.gif


https://blogs.systweak.com/2017/05/10-best-...re-for-windows/

As for SSD, oh yeah, it makes ALL the difference in the world. Take two machines of the same spec, put an SSD in one of them and BAM it just screams!! The other machine starts to feel really sluggish by comparison. Even an older machine can be given new life with an SSD. I had a dual core i5 macbook that was really feeling sluggish. Put in an SSD and BAM it was useable again. Browsers just popped open, apps were quick. Etc. On fast machines, it's a thing of true beauty smile.gif

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I've been wondering why my laptop (music recording computer) is slower than my same spec tower that I use for general use. I'd forgotten that I fired an SSD into the tower a while back, this thread jogged my memory.

The drive in my laptop is partitioned, is there a way to clone the whole thing so I can just copy it back or do I have to go the old route of reinstalling everything? Back in the Win95 days I used to use Norton Ghost to clone my C: in case of any problems,. D: was always a separate physical drive as it is in my tower but I don't have that luxury with my laptop.

Cheers for the heads up Todd

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Thanks Todd

Thinking of this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inateck-Docking-St...+hard+drive#Ask

And one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-inch-Solid...g+evo+850+500gb


Cheers

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Went for THIS and don't need a dock. May get a dock later on for more storage.

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That works!!!! smile.gif You can always add a dock later if you want to add more drives or if you want to build a raid. You can get SSD "ish" performance out of a cheap dock and a couple of old laptop drives, just like I did for very little money. My 1.5 Terabyte non ssd raid pushes 200MB per second over USB 3. Which is plenty fast and the whole thing cost less than $75.

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QUOTE (Phil66 @ Oct 9 2017, 04:22 AM) *
Thanks Todd

Thinking of this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inateck-Docking-St...+hard+drive#Ask

And one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-inch-Solid...g+evo+850+500gb


Cheers

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Went for THIS and don't need a dock. May get a dock later on for more storage.

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