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Originally posted by tehlord SSD is the solid state hard drive, works like a flash drive - no moving parts and therefore unbelievably quick read times.

SSD speeds have nothing to do with read vs. write and everything to do with random access vs. sequential access.

A "copy" is basically a sequential operation so I suppose that's why some naïve benchmarkers thought that "writes" were slow.

SSDs are awesome for things like boot and swap files which are all random-accessed, that's why people install their OSes on it. When it comes to loading up a big sample, SSD really isn't going to offer much of an improvement because, again, that's sequential access. It would make a difference if you're trying to stream 30 samples at the same time, because that then becomes random access.

Unless you really know what you're doing, there's no point in using an SSD as anything but the system drive.

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some nutcase acquaintance of mine with too much money has his entire setup running like 10 SSD in some tiered RAID 0 setup. It must cost like 10 000$.

I'd keep my samples on it and my program files on it.

Generally, any samples your using will either be loaded into RAM (if your not using many) or loaded into memory, in which case, you'll probably be using enough to make the access to them almsot random.

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Originally posted by evo8 Question for the tech-savvy guys - Ive acquired a 160gb Intel X-25 SSD and i gonna rebuild my pc with an i7 870 and also install Windows 7 64 bit Just wondering how best to utilise it? Put the operating system on it, or all my samples, my ableton folder or just put as much as i can on it? Just wanna make sure i get the most out of it, thanks

For real speeds, get an other one and put it in Raid

Most important Programs and OS goes on it. For samples get a regular 1 TB+ HDD.

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Thanks for all the replies, the only reason i bought it is because i got it at about 60% discount and was going to rebuild my PC anyway
Consensus seems to be to install the OS on it so i think ill do that, ta all!

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Originally posted by Timothy For real speeds, get an other one and put it in Raid

+1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It's good to use one HD for OS and programs & a separate one for your samples and other things.

The main reason for that is, if you catch a virus on that HD with the OS on it, you don't need to reformat the second hard drive. It saves time and frustration.

Also, you'll find that your OS will run a little smoother.

You probably know this already, but make sure you align your partitions, disable automatic defrag and install a trim tool. Only Windows 7 will do these automatically. However, I don't think Windows 7 trim support is well established for some SSDs, so you'll probably need to see what firmware updates are available.

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Solid State Drives have much lower latencies and higher transfer rates compared to mechanical hard drives.Using SSD as a system OS drive, containing all the OS files, software and temp files will give a big boost to system responsiveness.The OS perceived speed and responsiveness relies heavily on disk access time and read or write of small files.I'm getting installing W7 on them as soon as I have the cash for the hardware and licenses.

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