[Rwp] Please Help me compare these specs

[Jes]

What do you do?

Jes

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> On Jun 15, 2015, at 1:36 PM, Scott Chesworth via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> 
> Honestly, neither make me think that I want it. I suspect we do quite
> different stuff though.
> 
>> On 15 Jun 2015, at 18:20, Jes via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>> 
>> So which would you recommend, config 1 or config 2?
>> 
>> 
>> Jes
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Jun 15, 2015, at 6:55 AM, Scott Chesworth via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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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