[Rwp] Please Help me compare these specs

[Chris Belle]

Yeh, I do love ssd's for sample playback, I have a nice one in my daw,
at least what was top notch 2 years ago,
and it is extremely quick.

Like three times faster than the sata 3 I've seen read speeds of 700 or 
better from that thing.



On 6/15/2015 5:55 AM, Scott Chesworth via RWP 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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