Jan 04, 2013 02:25 pm I would love people's opinion on this as well, been considering one in my laptop (not for recording, my linux development box) But maybe for audio too...seems like prices are within the realm of possibility now.
SSD (Solid State Drives)
Posted on Jan 04, 2013 01:09 pm
BeerHunter
www.TheLondonProject.ca
Member Since: Feb 07, 2005
Is anyone using these drives as their primary in their DAW?
I am thinking of giving it a shot.
discuss
www.bestdirect.ca/product...amp;kw=kingston
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Jan 04, 2013 02:25 pm I would love people's opinion on this as well, been considering one in my laptop (not for recording, my linux development box) But maybe for audio too...seems like prices are within the realm of possibility now.
Jan 04, 2013 02:31 pm In my experience in tech support, I have witnessed this technology to be unreliable. I have seen businesses who have lost their data and cannot reboot their pc, receiving the blue screen of death, disk boot failures, and intermittent reliability issues that threaten overall system integrity. I have seen these drives fail at a much higher rate than the spinning platters tech. I would not trust my data or my projects on an ssd drive this year.
Jan 04, 2013 02:48 pm ya, that sucks... I really hope this gets figured out though.
Jan 04, 2013 06:00 pm Sorry y'all. Im willing to take some chances now and then, but to me, ssd tech is just not yet ready for prime time.
Jan 05, 2013 11:33 am I'm on the other side of the fence at this point --
I just replaced my system drive and my main projects drive with SSD's in early-2012 after a catastrophic drive failure of the system drive.
DISCLAIMER: The system drive is regularly ghosted to another identical SSD. The active projects drive is regularly backed-up to a 1TB spinner in the box. After the giant a** fu**ing that I took with that crash last year, I'm not going to trust ANYTHING.
That all out of the way -- They're SOOOOO fast... My goodness. Backups take mere minutes. DDP export, which always took about a second-per-minute of audio, takes seconds per hour of audio. Routine maintenance (think defragmenting) can be done "while you wait" instead of "while you're out" -- The "big machine" runs much quieter and cooler, boots up in what feels like seconds and is basically accessible immediately.
I'll take 'em. As with anything, I'd go with the "better brands" if possible -- I used Intel on the ones that really count, Vertec (Vertex?) on the backups - Couldn't be happier nearly a year later.
Jan 05, 2013 12:56 pm I wonder how the drives would perform in a RAID configuration. This might help with the reliability issue. It would only need RAID 1 (disk mirror). This of course is assuming that what ever issue these SSD are prone to would not affect both drives at the same time.
I am curious about this as the performance should really allow you to pile on FX etc. I would imagine you could create a pretty large pagefile for increased performance equal to 100 gigs of RAM!
I think that it is worth a shot. A 120 Gb drive is about $100. If I were able to mirror the 2 drives I would think the risk would be minimal. Lucky for me we are buying a bunch of these drives at work for our programmers so I will get a chance to check them out. We are getting the Kingston 120 gb version.
Feb 03, 2013 07:39 pm Check out this craziness! 24 SSDs in RAID something or other.....
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