[LAU] SSD for Linux audio? (Was: Re: Massive Xruns during recording)

[David W. Jones]

Don't know about audio work, but last holiday season, my wife and I replaced our laptop HDDs with Samsung EVO 850 SSDs. They were on sale at the time, I think we paid ~US$120 each for 512GB drives.

I found some advice on the web re setting the "trim" function for the drives to help them live longer.

But they're blazingly fast compared to HDDs. Debian on my i7/16GB RAM laptop comes up to login screen in about 20 seconds. (I don't use suspend to disk or hibernate.)

I can't imagine them getting in the way of audio performance.


On December 6, 2017 1:14:01 PM HST, "Jeanette C." <julien at mail.upb.de> wrote:
> Hey hey,
> I'm looking into buying an SSD for my system. Information I found is
> sometimes 
> conflicting and I'm not up to date on all that. So...
> 
> Are there particular compatibility issues (in software/drivers) that I
> must 
> take into account? From the hardware side: are there certain 
> models/series/vendors that have proved especially advantageous to
> audio work?
> 
> My motherboard does offer SATA2 V3, otherwise I see no particular
> hardware 
> restrictions.
> 
> I'd be grateful for some advice. If on some points there is nothing
> particular 
> to consider that would be a sufficient answer in itself.
> 
> TIA and best wishes,
> 
> Jeanette
> 
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