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Re: Audio Hard Drives - SSD or 720's?
Currently my internal work drives (one for samples & one for sessions) in my cheesegrater are 7200 rpm WD Blacks and my system drive is a Samsung 1TB 850 EVO on a pcie slot adapter. Been looking to upgrade to at least an ssd for the samples using another Samsung on a pcie adapter. The dilemma is do I go to another 850 EVO or the newer 860 EVO which is supposed to have a greater capacity for terabytes written than the 850 EVO by a factor of four for the larger drives. Not so sure I'd need that for samples but for sessions? That's a major reason I haven't gone for an ssd for sessions as they get a lot of writing to them.
Thoughts? My backups are 7200 rpm spinners in an OWC FW800 enclosure (the one that looks like a mini-cheesegrater). Backups manually done by Carbon Copy Cloner on a weekly basis as a minimum. |
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Re: Audio Hard Drives - SSD or 720's?
Do you use any sound libraries like Kontakt? I'd love to have all those on an SSD but they are still too expensive, even for 1tb!
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Re: Audio Hard Drives - SSD or 720's?
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From Amazon: Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB $300 US Samsung 850 EVO 2 TB $660 US It's not Kontakt itself that's large but the libraries used in it. Stock Kontakt content will easily fit on a 1TB drive and unless you go crazy with the larger orchestral libraries you could fit everything on a 1TB ssd. As always you have to balance affordability versus speed and if you do a lot with samples then an ssd is THE way to go. Even an internal 7200 rpm drive will frustrate you sooner or later. |
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Re: Audio Hard Drives - SSD or 720's?
This is a never ending discussion ... to make a long story short ... we all did use 7200 RPM drives at some point before the SSDs where released ....
If you are on a budget and cannot afford an SSD, the 7200 will make the cut for you with some minor glitches and slowness ... but if you can buy an SSD it is a definite upgrade
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Re: Audio Hard Drives - SSD or 720's?
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I'm thinking to go for this: https://www.owcdigital.com/products/thunderbay-4-mini |
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