How About Solid State?

[Shan]

Originally Posted by John_Toolbox

Believe me, I'm a cutting edge technology freak....

But I don't think SSD's aren't worth it... yet. Why? Figure you'll get at least 2 years out of a conventional hard drive. Right now it's bigger and faster than any SSD on the market. 2 years from now the SSD's will be bigger, faster, and much cheaper.

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

[RobPG]

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

Sounds fascinating, care to elaborate/post links to how tos?
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[Shan]

Originally Posted by RobPG

Sounds fascinating, care to elaborate/post links to how tos?
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All the discussion and experimentation on this topic is now buried in multiple threads that I cant even find myself. I tried many RAMDisk utilities and SuperVolume ended up being the one that gave us some amazing results. RTAS VI's running all in RAM was pretty jaw dropping by the way. I think I posted screen shots and video screencasts demonstrating plug-in instantiation speeds etc. I even ran a whole sesion all in RAM. Video playback was like butter and jaw dropping. I plan on revisiting this in the W7 64 era.

Shane

[martineargent]

HI buddy
I do not think they will support .Because the use of flash driver is just new one and as you said only two companies Sony and dell started So if we think globally Then they will not support..

[Craig F]

Anyone try running there VI libraries off of a SSD?

[sunburst79]

Originally Posted by Craig F

Anyone try running there VI libraries off of a SSD?

Not yet, Given how fast the read times are it would probably be a great place for them

Sheldon Radford who is the the Venue support guy gave a explanation in the Venue section on why they hadn't switched to SSD's yet. And if you think about it the VENUE is the perfect place for a SSD since the rate of mechanical failure of an SSD should be much less than a HDD. Load in/Load out the constant transit during a tour could all take their toll on a mechanical HDD.

[Shan]

I'm sure looking forward to booting up W7 64 in 11 seconds from SSD though.

Shane

[solidwalnut]

Originally Posted by Shan

I'm sure looking forward to booting up W7 64 in 11 seconds from SSD though.

Shane

Yah, no doubt. Since I work for one half of WinTel, I've been able to view some vid's on SSD development. It's amazing stuff. Boot up times in seconds, laptops dropped from 5 feet with no hassles. I even saw one where they hung an SSD drive behind the afterburners of a land rocket and let the jet stream blow it away as it taxied. The guy went and found it a few hundred feet away, stuck it in a laptop and booted up the thing. Pretty cool.

[M-ManLA]

I am planning to get a SSD for my boot drive. I am curently looking at the OCZ Agility 120GB. It has the new Indilinx Barefoot controller and 64MB Cache. It has some rave reviews.

[chrisdee]

Let us know how it works:)