[LAU] SSD for audio

[david]

Brent Busby wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Joe Hartley wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 12:48:19 -0400
>> Allan Wind <allan_wind at lifeintegrity.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2010-11-02T16:44:31, Harry Van Haaren wrote:
>>>> There are RAM-SSD modules available. Plugs in via SATA 300 or PCI or
>>>> something IIRC...
>>>> That'd be awesome for anything that needs fast IO & sustained writing.
>>>>
>>>> If I remember the company Ill post here, Cheers, -Harry
>>>
>>> Fusion-io?
>>
>> I am currently working in QA for a company that makes storage systems 
>> (NAS/SAN appliances), and had a chance to work with some of the 
>> FusionIO products.  Holy guacamole, they are blazingly fast!  They're 
>> pricey, though, since that kind of speed comes at a premium.
>>
>> I've also had the chance to work with a number of different SSDs, and 
>> have just purchased one to install into my studio machine.  My 
>> experiences at work lead me to believe that the SSDs now available are 
>> reliable and fast enough for audio work.
> 
> Something that's been occuring to me today:
> 
> Linux has ramdisk support, though it's seldom used or talked about as 
> much as ramdisks used to be on the Amiga platform long ago...
> 
> I can hardly imagine an Ardour project bigger than 512MB.  A 1GB project 
> would be humongous...
> 
> These days you can have 8, 16, 24...even more...gigabytes of real memory...
> 
> What's really stopping anyone from having an Ardour project in ram, and 
> bypassing the whole sata/scsi subsystem completely, saving the kernel a 
> ton of i/o, and making *lots* of simulateous tracks possible?

Don't forget to include a heavy-duty UPS able to keep that system up and 
running long enough to write all those gigabytes of data to storage that 
doesn't require constant power to maintain it's contents! ;-)

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