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Old 10-25-2009, 06:34 PM
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Default Re: How About Solid State?

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Originally Posted by Craig F View Post
Anyone try running there VI libraries off of a SSD?
Check the Eastwest forums, there are a few folks doing this over there. If your sample engine supports streaming from disk, this is the way to go. The latest batch of SSDs are pretty fast, 200MB/s write times or more, and 250MB/s read times or more, but even the older ones still had ridiculously fast seek times, which is what you need to stream samples.


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Originally Posted by Shan
Some of us bleeding edge types have been running Pro Tools all in RAM and just use the HD/SSD as a mirror for any write requests. This pretty much eliminates Disk I/O altogether. The results are pretty stellar by the way.

Shane
I remember trying this with the RAM disk in OS9. Back then you couldn't do much though, I think my RAM disk was a whopping 384MB
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