Solid State Drives?

[peter_heard01]

Guys,

Thinking of shelling out £250 for one of these. Booting times aside will this make playing with and rendering and consolidating etc faster in ableton?

Cheers
Pete

[Wunjo]

Mmmm not too sure about bouncing tracks as that seems to be a processing side of things. But as far as clip playback, etc.. hell yes go for it. My next laptop is going to have a 130gb SSD as the main master and boot drive and one of these as the slave for my library for stuff like komplete and all the other shit:

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Momentus- ... PDKIKX0DER

It's a SSD/HDD hybrid.

[Pugface]

I have heard from a very PC literate engineer that SSD have still not come of age. They are reputed to be lightning fast (see You Tube). Also the advice i got was that the INTEL ones are the most reliable. the rest can fail. not all INTEL SSDs are ok. so dont trust the SSD for back ups only operation.

theres all sorts of comments around the web at the moment about these drives. so ask around and get the technical know how on these before you buy. they vastly differ in price and this has a direct relationship on reliability. more money ... more reliable. i nearly invested until i got to hear the facts.