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13 Nov 17 - 11:56 AM (#3888369) Subject: Tech: Installing 2 SSD Drives to Laptop ? From: punkfolkrocker I've got a 5 or 6 year old i5 laptop which I plan to upgrade for audio DAW use. I reckon if I remove the DVD I should be able to fit a 2nd SSD Drive. Fingers crossed it will be a fairly easy install. Over the last couple years of Black Friday sales I've acquired brand new Sandisk 480 GB Ultra 11 and a Sandisk 480 GB Extreme Pro. The Question is... Which should be the C system drive for optimum performane, and which should be the storage drive for audio files and samples...??? Common sense would say use the fastest for C Drive, but on the other hand I'd need fast real time access from storage drive for audio files and samples used in DAW tracks...???? advice appreciated.. cheers... |
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13 Nov 17 - 02:08 PM (#3888380) Subject: RE: Tech: Installing 2 SSD Drives to Laptop ? From: Vashta Nerada I use my SSD (on my desktop) for my operating system and programs, and I bought one large enough to leave room for adding more programs. All of my data are on the traditional moving HDs. Given the cost coming down on SSDs, I can see the temptation to use them for data, but I'd look into the prospects of disk cleanup - you're not supposed to defragment SSDs. At least, last time I checked on it, you weren't supposed to. So what will happen to a drive with data moving around on it a lot? |
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13 Nov 17 - 02:57 PM (#3888386) Subject: RE: Tech: Installing 2 SSD Drives to Laptop ? From: Reinhard Defragmenting of harddisks used to be important as is sorted the data blocks of a file so that they were adjacent or near to each other to minimise disk platter and read/write head movements which cost time. On SSDs you have no mechanical parts so this isn't needed. |
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13 Nov 17 - 03:09 PM (#3888387) Subject: RE: Tech: Installing 2 SSD Drives to Laptop ? From: robomatic Do a little research on long term use of SSDs. I believe they may have a limited amount of reads and writes (although, obviously, since they are already used on many new laptops this is either a large number or they have overcome previous limitations, but CHECK). I think whatever allows you to use the laptop at greater speeds should be your C Drive. Audio and Video files will not gain much by higher random access as they do not require much random access (they are large typically contiguous files). |