i am asking because the hdd of my aging laptop is pretty slow and struggles to play back my current live set.
But i neither want to replace the whole brick yet nor buy a new hdd.
Cpu wise the machine is running my liveset without any problems.
The set is pretty sample heavy with 3,5 gb of audio files, so my idea was to buy a 4gb usb flash drive which are quite cheap nowadays and simply run the set off that thing.
Besides having the sample data running on a very low latency device with low access times it would also free the internal hdd from streaming the samples and let it do operating system tasks only.
Generally the speed of usb 2.0 flash drives should be more than adequat.
My only concerns are that parallel data transfer performance could be subpar and that the usb interface could add some wierd behaviour to the whole setup (an attribute for which a lot of usb devices are famous for).
it would be great if you have any experiences to share about this "low cost upgrade" scenario
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cheers