[Rwp] Please Help me compare these specs

[Scott Chesworth]

I'd argue that the performance benefits are worth it, so long as you
keep decent backups and can get a replacement drive up and running
with minimal time lost if the worst happens. In my experience,
mechanical drives aren't made like they used to be anymore anyway, I'm
seeing shorter and shorter lifespans. Don't get me wrong, I'm not
saying everyone should splash the cash and be SSD for every aspect of
the system, I'm with you that I can't really see the point of having a
dedicated audio drive as SSD yet, but for anything that's primarily
there to stream samples and the OS itself, it seems like a no brainer.

Scott


On 6/15/15, Chris Belle via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> One dirty little secret about ssd's though.
>
> They wear out faster if you write to them a lot.
>
> If you have a bigger drive, then wear leveling will allow to use all the
> cells more uniformly,
> and they will last longer.
>
> That's why even though I give up the faster boot if I have a one drive
> system, I tend to go with standard drives, MLC ssd's won't hold up for
> many many years,
> like a standard drive will, even though there's the possibility of
> mechanical failure, I have drives from before the turn of the century
> still running,
> but doubt that any ssd's will last that long.
>
> I wore out a thumb drive in a month.
>
> I know we are talking about a big difference in the nand flash quality
> here, and the usb thumb didn't have any wear leveling, but
> cells wore out on that thing
> and rather quickly and it was an expensive thumb.
>
> So my favorite place to put an MLC ssd is for a samples spooling drive,
> it won't wear out,
> and you'll get stunningly fast sample loading.
>
>
>
>
> On 6/14/2015 8:19 PM, Scott Chesworth via RWP wrote:
>> My knowledge isn't current enough and I'm in the wrong part of the
>> world to comment price-wise, but two thoughts spring to mind. A 1tb
>> SSD for your OS drive is almost definitely overkill. Seeing as you'd
>> likely be keeping sample libraries, sessions and the like on separate
>> drives and even the messiest installation of Win 7 is under 30 GB,
>> what's the rest for? That said, on the cheaper model, the OS drive
>> being a standard HD makes no sense either. Having switched a few
>> systems over to SSD here, I can tell you that the difference in boot
>> times and overall responsiveness is like night and day, a bigger
>> difference than I've seen from any other upgrade.
>>
>> Hth in some way
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> On 6/15/15, Jes via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>> Guys, I have narrowed things down to two configurations from studiocat
>>> in their project studio daw line. I need help understanding the specs,
>>> as I want to get the most bang for my buck but don't want to break the
>>> bank.
>>>
>>> Config 1:
>>>   - Case: Silent Mid Tower
>>>   - Power-Supply: 500w quiet
>>>   - Haswell CPU: 4790k @ 4.4GHz (8 th..
>>>   - RAM: 32GB DDR3/1600
>>>   - OS drive: 1TB SSD
>>>   - Audio drive: 2TB HD
>>>   - Samples drive 1: 1TB HD
>>>   - Samples drive 2: 2TB HD
>>>   - Burner: 24x DVD/RW
>>>   - Video: HD4600
>>>   - Add TI chipset Firewire: For all others. Will work with my Motu
>>> Audio Express 6X6 firewire/USB audio interface.
>>> Operating System: Windows7 home premium 64-bit.
>>> Cost: $2,164.00
>>>
>>> Config 2:
>>>   - Case: Mid Tower
>>>   - Power-Supply: 500w quiet
>>>   - Haswell CPU: 4690k @ 3.9GHz (4 th..
>>>   - RAM: 16GB DDR3/1600
>>>   - OS drive: 500GB HD
>>>   - Audio drive: 500GB HD
>>>   - Samples drive 1: 1TB HD
>>>   - Samples drive 2: 1TB HD
>>>   - Burner: 24x DVD/RW
>>>   - Add 2nd Burner: 24x DVD/RW
>>>   - Video: HD4600
>>>   - Add TI chipset Firewire: For all others
>>> Operating System: Windows7 64-bit home premium.
>>>
>>> Cost: $1,434.00
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