Wow i gotta give it to DJRANN for letting me know about this, he made a thread in the production studio about SSD's in more detail.
What can i say, you can see my specs on my sig and let me tell you traktor loads up in half a second for me and quality just feels amazing. I use timecode vinyl and i think its a step even closer to the real thing. If you don't need that much space you can find a good SSD for your preference.
yep, been running an ssd as my main drive on my desktop for a year or so now, i love it!
you just have to take some extra precautions to limit the amount of writing to it, to extend its life.
SPACEMASTERS
afriad i might screw something up.
But defitnetly would like to do it.
orTofønChiLd
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Originally posted by SPACEMASTERS
afriad i might screw something up.
But defitnetly would like to do it.
its quite easy just be careful with the sata connector you don't wanna tear off the ribbon
Stu Cox
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Originally posted by kadomony
you just have to take some extra precautions to limit the amount of writing to it, to extend its life.
Give it a few years and either FeRAM or MRAM drives (whichever gets there first) will hit the shelves... capable of doing thousands of trillions of write/erase cycles before they burn out (instead of the <100k you can do with Flash) and much lower power consumption too.
We've been using some Flash SD cards at work which have died within a couple of months of use (albeit fairly intense use), quite shocking really, so we've had to take a similar approach and work out how we can write to the card as rarely as possible.
feelgood
Ive been meaning to switch to solid state on my desktop for awhile, but Im waiting for prices to come down. Besides, running two regular drives in RAID 0 + 1 is quick enough.
Originally posted by Stu Cox
Give it a few years and either FeRAM or MRAM drives (whichever gets there first) will hit the shelves...
When would you say those will arrive on our door step?
Stu Cox
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Originally posted by n3lly
When would you say those will arrive on our door step?
Might be quite a few years tbh, seeing that you can't event get USB sticks using them yet. MRAM seems to be the furthest along and a lot of research is going into a new variant called SPRAM.
I think the biggest MRAM chip commercially available at the moment is only 4 Mbits, although 32 Mbit SPRAM chips have been made in research labs. So give it time... probably 5+ years before we see commercial products.
MRAM/SPRAM will also be a competitor to DRAM though so you may well see them replacing system memory before they replace storage. As they're non-volatile technologies, a computer with MRAM/SPRAM internal memory would be truly 'instant on', i.e. if you turn your computer off then back on again it will be exactly where you left it without having to rely on hibernation etc and would match or even beat the performance of current memory modules. (Doing the same with Flash would be pretty awful as it's so slow compared with the DRAM used at the moment and would die pretty quickly from too many write/erase cycles)
orTofønChiLd
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Originally posted by Stu Cox
Might be quite a few years tbh, seeing that you can't event get USB sticks using them yet. MRAM seems to be the furthest along and a lot of research is going into a new variant called SPRAM.
I think the biggest MRAM chip commercially available at the moment is only 4 Mbits, although 32 Mbit SPRAM chips have been made in research labs. So give it time... probably 5+ years before we see commercial products.
MRAM/SPRAM will also be a competitor to DRAM though so you may well see them replacing system memory before they replace storage. As they're non-volatile technologies, a computer with MRAM/SPRAM internal memory would be truly 'instant on', i.e. if you turn your computer off then back on again it will be exactly where you left it without having to rely on hibernation etc and would match or even beat the performance of current memory modules. (Doing the same with Flash would be pretty awful as it's so slow compared with the DRAM used at the moment and would die pretty quickly from too many write/erase cycles)
That sounds pretty wicked...but on the flip side I'm happy with my SSD.
Neo Hacker
Even though SSDs are a good upgrade (Traktor or not), I probably won't upgrade any time soon. I don't trust them enough. I've read a lot about reliability issues on SSDs. The old spinup drives appear to be more reliable and can last years.
I don't really mind if Traktor takes 5 seconds or 2 seconds to comes up. The most important point for me is that my data is safe. But that's me :)
orTofønChiLd
You can always have a back up drive. I think you can swap the optical drive for a regular drive.
Jarvmeister
Anyone who thinks a HDD is more reliable than an SSD is really fooling themselves.
