30 Nov
2010
30 Nov
'10
8:20 p.m.
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:06:32 +0100
Arnold Krille <arnold(a)arnoldarts.de> wrote:
If you want to use one: Use it for the current
projects you are working on.
Leave the operating system on the traditional hdd. You boot your os only once
a day. Once ardour is running, the current project is reading many chunks of
data from different files in rapid succession. Exactly what the main advantage
of ssd is...
This is exactly how I've just upgraded my studio machine. I replaced 3 IDE HDDs
with a total of ~300GB of storage with 2 SATA drives - a 500GB 2.5" Seagate
Constellation and an 80GB Intel X25-M drive.
The 500GB drive has 3 bootable partitions so I can muck around with various
Linux distros and versions without messing up my real studio environment, and
a big partition for general storage. Working sessions are in the /tape partiton
on the 80GB drive.
I've had three sessions in the studio since the upgrade and it's been working
flawlessly, even though it's just got a 3GHz Pentium 4 as the CPU.
A side note: since these were overdub sessions, I really didn't want to be around
the corner from where the musicians were set up, since I figured that'd hamper
communications. X11VNC and my laptop to the rescue! I displayed the studio's
desktop over to the wireless laptop, and was able to sit right in the performing
area and control the transport remotely. Folks were very impressed.
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