[LAU] SSD for audio

Brent Busby brent at keycorner.org
Tue Nov 2 20:07:03 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Joe Hartley wrote:

> But the SSD will retain its data when the machine crashes, or the 
> power goes out, or when the drummer decides to find out what that 
> button does (it turns the UPS on and off, doofus).  I'd never record 
> to a RAM disk because there's always an additional step needed to 
> write to the "real" storage.  Even if you use rsync to only write 
> what's new, there may be significant delays while you do the dump.

That's all true...  Ramdisk is something to use if you're on a machine 
with a UPS, a stable kernel, no xruns, etc.  And you have to remember to 
save your work.  Still...imagine the bandwidth!  Woo!

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