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

[littlesicily]

Mac Pro w/ 4 internal Drive bays...

1 SSD for OS
1 SSD for Audio
1 SSD for Samples
1 spinning HD for other Media (itunes, iphoto)

Backups of each w/ spinning HDs.