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Old 01-13-2012, 11:15 PM
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With pt hd10 and the disc cache feature, it wont matter which disc you use...
You record to RAM so even a slow 5400 USB drive will allow you to track 768 tracks
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Old 01-14-2012, 06:47 AM
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With pt hd10 and the disc cache feature, it wont matter which disc you use...
You record to RAM so even a slow 5400 USB drive will allow you to track 768 tracks
Actually from what I've read this isn't the case w/PT 10. The Ram disk cache only is active on playback. It has nothing to do with the recording process which is all the more reason why my question is pertinent for tracking. We still need 'drives' to record not just ram. Your point is correct for playing back! All you need is thumb drive and enough ram to load the song - but it's another whole thing for actively tracking.
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Old 01-14-2012, 09:00 AM
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Marsdy and Chrisdee -

Are either of you guys using SSD drives for the drives where you store and work on your projects or are you just using them as your boot/sample drives?

-Jamey
I'm on a Mac Pro HDX. System Drive Intel SSD 120GB. Pro Tools session drive Intel SSD 120GB. I use Synk Pro (http://decimus.net/Synk) which instantly backups my PT files as I work to 1 of the other 3 1TB internal drives.

The system (lion) boots very fast, all apps including PT launch very fast and all PT disk related functions are very fast.

You must have trim enabled: http://digitaldj.net/2011/07/21/trim-enabler-for-lion/ or the SSD drives will slow down over time.
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Old 01-14-2012, 10:56 AM
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So Ron,
Have you ever tried cutting 20 or 25 tracks at once to your SSD session drive? How are the write times? Any sluggishness at all in multitrack recording? That's my biggest concern. Reliability to SSD on 20-24 tks recording at once.
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So Ron,
Have you ever tried cutting 20 or 25 tracks at once to your SSD session drive? How are the write times? Any sluggishness at all in multitrack recording? That's my biggest concern. Reliability to SSD on 20-24 tks recording at once.
Ran a test for you. Recording 40 stereo tracks at 96k. System usage - CPU 4% / Disk 12% / Cache 55%

all functions on PT are instant. No lag time, no hangs, smooth running cursor on time line.

Just as long as you have that back up going I mentioned SSD drives appear, to me, to be just as reliable as regular HDs.

Hope this helps.

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Ran a test for you. Recording 40 stereo tracks at 96k. System usage - CPU 4% / Disk 12% / Cache 55%

all functions on PT are instant. No lag time, no hangs, smooth running cursor on time line.

Just as long as you have that back up going I mentioned SSD drives appear, to me, to be just as reliable as regular HDs.

Hope this helps.

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Thanks, Ron. That SURE sounds 'rock stable'. Keep in mind I'm all on Native - wondering if that makes any difference.. ??

Don't understand why AVID won't support the SSD's. Remember back about a decade when DIGI wouldn't support IDE/ATA drives? We ALL knew they worked just fine all day and all night under extreme conditions - and they still wouldn't support them. I guess they just want the highest standard.

I'll have to reread the other post about 'backup' in real time. But how do you get PT to cut to 'two drives at once'? Unless I'm missing your point. I ALWAYS run Retrospect™ backups after every session. Are you talking about something more 'raid-like' in real time when you're cutting to the SSD? Or just making sure you backup after each session which I already do.
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I'll have to reread the other post about 'backup' in real time. But how do you get PT to cut to 'two drives at once'? Unless I'm missing your point. I ALWAYS run Retrospect™ backups after every session. Are you talking about something more 'raid-like' in real time when you're cutting to the SSD? Or just making sure you backup after each session which I already do.
What this does: http://decimus.net/Synk is detect any changes I make on the SSD drive and immediately makes a copy to a internal HD for me. I never even notice that it's doing the copying. I do this because although the SSDs have been perfectly stable so far, I have no idea if, like a regular HD, you get a warning IF the drive was going to die. For all I know it could just suddenly die with no warning so, I'd have a real time back up ready to go.
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Ron,

That SYNK Software makes a very good impression on me. However, I do not really understand if it will further be developed?

I was always looking for such a software, but don't want to buy a "dead" software. Do you happen to have any further info than on the Decius website?

I will download the demo and play with it.
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Ron,

That SYNK Software makes a very good impression on me. However, I do not really understand if it will further be developed?

I was always looking for such a software, but don't want to buy a "dead" software. Do you happen to have any further info than on the Decius website?

I will download the demo and play with it.
Always best to email the software developer directly. Let us know their answer.
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What this does: http://decimus.net/Synk is detect any changes I make on the SSD drive and immediately makes a copy to a internal HD for me. I never even notice that it's doing the copying. I do this because although the SSDs have been perfectly stable so far, I have no idea if, like a regular HD, you get a warning IF the drive was going to die. For all I know it could just suddenly die with no warning so, I'd have a real time back up ready to go.
Thanks, Ron. I really like the way Synk works. Good concept. I wonder if it's 'erasure'-smart too. Like will it be smart about the 'contents' of the source folder. So if something's removed from the source folder - is it also removed from the target? Then the other question which ALWAYS affects people working with audio files - will every time I do an edit in protools - does that marker still print to the parent file as it did with SoundDesignerII files? Every time you did an edit in ProTools it would place a 'marker' within the parent audio file and the "MODIFIED DATE" would update and Retrospect, a popular backup software, would see the parent audio file as NEW and consider it needing backing up again.. I hope that was only a function of SoundDesignerII files.
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