ONE SSD for ALL

[davemartone]

Searching for weeks for this answer and there is no real answer I can find.

Old days we had

OS one drive
Audio one drive
Samples one drive

Today.. SSD 1 TB eg.

Run OS/Samples and Audio writing reading.

External for Backup.
Partitioned? No yes?

Not looking for thoughts, but actual proof.
Makes sense in 2016 to put it all on one drive. Back it up. and enjoy the speed.
I know most projects will be stored in Ram as well.

Thanks in advance.

[abre]

I am doing just that. Everything on one SSD. Backup on external drive.

[mhuang]

personally, I still go with 2 SSDs minimum, 1 for OS and 1 for project drive.
I rather spread out the write life cycle to 2 SSD instead of 1.

[davemartone]

At this point in the game, life of the SSD does not really seem relevant.
Check this out

http://www.pcworld.com/article/28560...ity-fears.html

[thewiz]

Same here I work on the 500gig SSD internal drive on both my Mac.. huge thunderbolt Raid HD for backup only..

[7Seas]

OS should in principle always be in a separate drive.
The question is not so much speed (although speed is always a consideration), with SSDs and all, but with the fact that you would be putting everything through the same I/O path and therefore potentiating a 'Single Point of Failure' event.

Z.

[abre]

I say put everything on the SSD. Except the backup. Get your monies worth

[grayter1]

I'm still old school -

1 SSD for the OS and programs
1 SSD for samples
1 big 2 TB spinning disk for audio & video scratch.

I'm beginning to re-think the spinning drive, and may want to replace it with a 1 TB SSD.

Anyone still using platter drives?

tg

[Craig F]

on a Desktop machine I still recommend separate drives for each
on a Laptop OS/Samples on one, sessions on another
everything on 1 drive still makes me nervous and makes drive/data management a PITA

[guitardom]

Originally Posted by grayter1

I'm still old school -

1 SSD for the OS and programs
1 SSD for samples
1 big 2 TB spinning disk for audio & video scratch.

I'm beginning to re-think the spinning drive, and may want to replace it with a 1 TB SSD.

Anyone still using platter drives?

tg

You're hardly old school! Plenty of people still use spinners for multiple reasons. Cost/performance ratio is the biggest. I am not purchasing 3Tb of SSD's for my Samples alone. I also use different OS drives/partitions for different purposes. Need at least 2 more here. Then I use 2 different audio drives to separate clients. When you are working on multiple albums, 1Tb is no where near enough working space. So most of it is going to be based on your needs. It's just not cost effective in many situations, so you end up picking where it's beneficial.

Yes The OS boots / loads faster and SSD's do better in performance tests, but many "real life" functions you have to be stressing it pretty hard to get much of a difference. You are not exceeding the read/write bandwidth on a spinner with a sata III interface with 80-90 tracks of streaming audio at 48k. The discussion changes of course at high sample rates where bandwidth needs can double or triple.

Sample drives, it really depends on the samplers you use if they are streaming or if they load in ram. other factors such as how much polyphony you need if they are streaming along with sample rates. But, it's still a very expensive proposition for many people with large libraries.

Right now it would cost me about 2500$ To change everything to 850 Evo's that I use. It's just not logical and leaves me at bare minimum space wise. Again, many of us pick and choose the most beneficial parts.