SSD Prices in a Free Fall

Re:SSD Prices in a Free Fall by coldtea on Monday June 22, 2015 @06:25PM (#9761601)

Or have Creative Suite installed.

Or any modern sample library (which can get to 80GB for a single piano).

Or any video editing projects and/or templates.

Just some examples of professional stuff (for graphic designers, musicians/producers and videographers) that take huge space.

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Re:SSD Prices in a Free Fall by jobjh797878 on Monday June 22, 2015 @09:15PM (#9762153)

There's no reason to put a sample library on an SSD.

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Re:SSD Prices in a Free Fall by coldtea on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @06:43AM (#9763754)

Actually there are tons of reasons.

You don't want to bring around extra drives and cables when you perform.

You don't want vibrations, bad handling etc while performing / touring etc, to crap your HDD.

You get much much faster random reads, which is what playing large sample libraries is all about.

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Re:SSD Prices in a Free Fall by gregsq on Monday June 22, 2015 @11:20PM (#9762425)

There would be for me if the price of SSD's come down enough. With my 2011 MBP and RME Babyface taxing the computer a bit too much with USB 2.0 context switching, my 120gig of samples streamed from disk would help while running this all at 96K.

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Re:SSD Prices in a Free Fall by jobjh797878 on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @12:08AM (#9762560)

Truthfully, I never considered this use case. Are you saying the computer is taxed because the USB controller is saturated?

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Re:SSD Prices in a Free Fall by moogly on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @07:51PM (#9768609)

I put all my sample libraries on SSDs to cut down on project load times. It helps immensely.

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