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| Mad for Brad |
| Been seeing these around. Much cheaper than pure SSD drives and much larger. Anyone know if this would work well with samples ? Seems like the hardrive comes with 4 gb of SSD storage which I imagine is used as some sort of internal swap. Im wondering if it will do any good for data that might not be close together or recalled that often. |
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| kitphillips |
| I think that 4 gig would function as a page file... So It'd probably speed up performance a little bit but not for DFD type applications. Only for libraries which are loading themselves into ram... |
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| DJ RANN |
Not worth it IMO.
What you need is sustained transfer not burst. These drives while about twice as fast as a normal (but good) HDD, don't really come close to true SSD which at the moment are benching around 7 to 10 times faster than standard HHD's.
SSD's are going to seriously drop in price over the next 6 months to a year so these hybrids will be outdated pretty fast. They may end up replacing normal drives, but they just don't compete with performance SSD's. |
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| Raphie |
purchased an OCZ Revodrive today :D fastest NAND drive ATM
now using my OCZ Vertex II for samples only. |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Raphie
purchased an OCZ Revodrive today :D fastest NAND drive ATM
now using my OCZ Vertex II for samples only. |
The benchmarks on those things are ing crazy. Annoying that they are PCIe though and damn, not much change from $1300 for the 480 gig version :wtf: |
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| Raphie |
yes they are :D but it's OS, studio apps and Nexus libraries only
sample CD's are on VERTEX II and tracking is done on Seagate Baracuda 7200 SATAII
but together with my new i7 950 and 12GB 1600mhz DDR-3 this means flawless performance for all my arrangments. so i should be done now for the next 2 years or so. |
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