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Thought you might like to know - the replacement Samsung SSD is running at 45% - the last one at 9.65%
Still below optimum which is 70% for 1080 users - but much better

Files transferred to new SSD - had to reinstall Ableton for some reason (kept shutting down after vst scan) but it's all good now - everything running great.

Thanks everyone for the help

Received the new SSD and have all the files transferred. Now when I run Ableton (installed on laptop C: drive) it runs - scans all the vst's - but at the end when it asks if I want to recover my work - before I can even answer it shuts down. Tried it several times - same results. Best I can tell eve...

Thanks - I watched a laptop repair video on YouTube thinking that might clear it up and it did. I understand SATA now. Thanks

What exactly is a SATA port. I did the google thing so I know the definition but am still as clueless as when I began. My laptop is new and has three USB ports. 2 x 2.0 1 x 3.0 - my SSD connected to the 3 - are any of the three SATA connections

Kontakt Stand Alone = 13 Sec open Kontakt in Ableton = 13 Sec open Ableton to Open - No Templates - Showing Plug-In List - 2:55 Sec open (list took 9 sec) Open Renegade Acoustic 60 Sec (3.65 Gb) - Stand Alone Kontakt Open Renegade Acoustic 27 Sec (3.65 Gb) - Ableton Kontakt Looking at it this way I ...

I did uninstall ableton from the SSD and installed it on the c drive while keeping all libraries on the SSD - still runs very sloww takes forever to load instruments in Kontakt.

Is there any way to keep it from scanning vst's every time I open the program? that would save a lot of time.

I can click on the .exe file in Ableton > programs on the external SSD start it there and the same thing happens. By "apps on the internal drive" are yu referring to all the .dll files? So how do I load Kontack files? Do I separate the .nki onto the internal drive and keep the instruments ...

I thought of one other thing that might make a difference

While all is installed on the SSD external drive - I start Ableton from a shortcut on my desktop. Is Ableton running from the SSD or on my desktop??

I ran task manager when opening konyakt Ableton cpu meter read 0% it took about 30/40 seconds for kontakt to open in Ableton - open Ableton CPU meter fluctuates between 0-1% took a bit longer to open Renegade Electric Guitar and CPU in task manager read 18% when playing steady rhythem - 24% total us...

Thanks for getting back to me Ableton and All files are on the SSD connected to the laptop via 3.0 usb All vst are in the right folder I do have a ton ov vst's and kontakt inst. Ran a speed test 17.8 DL Speed 2.17 UL Speed 51 ms Latency Yes - 1 TB hard drive I'll run the TM and get back to you thank...

Hello Everyone I have everything installed on a Samsung T5 500Gb SSD and I'm getting like 50/70 second loading times for Kontakt Instruments/VST's and even very long loading times for Ableton itself. Any ideas what the problem might be? HP AMD A9 3.10 Gz 8 Gb RAM Windows 10 Ableton Suite 10 Kontakt ...

Thanks

Got it!!! Thanks all.

Great - thanks. I do have 7zip but was using WinRar - I'll try that