On my 2012 MacPro tower, my boot drive is a big spinner, and there are 2 other smaller SSD drives, one for VI libraries and the other for Audio Files. So far, so good.
On my 2011 MacbookPro, there's just one 2TB SSD, and, though I've not had this configuration for long, and don't tax it with tons of audio tracks, it's been working fine.
I realize this info is not all that relevant to many orchestrators here, who do ask a whole lot more of their DP rig. I don't mean to waste anyone's time; but it may be useful knowledge to some.
And thanks Mike, HL, James and FM - love this place.
SSD On Boot Drive
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- tommymandel
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Re: SSD On Boot Drive
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- KenNickels
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Re: SSD On Boot Drive
My 2012 Mac Pro will arrive Monday and when it's up and running I'll see how it fares compared to the 2008 model. Off the topic of SSD's for a moment to ask a general performance question. Has anyone ever found that problems with audio rendering, i.e., clicks, dropouts and other weird stuff were due to the audio interface itself?
My Box(s): Two Mac Pros 5,1/3Ghz, 12 core, 96GB Ram, OS 10.14.6, One Windows 10 computer, Vienna Ensemble Pro, MOTU Audio Express, DP 10.01, Falcon 3, Eastwest, NOVO Strings, 8Dio Brass, Spitfire,, Symphobia
- doodles
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Re: SSD On Boot Drive
We switched to SSD's for boot drive (which also has a few sample streaming libraries on it) and SSD's for the actual projects (including recording audio).
The difference is mind-boggling.
The difference is mind-boggling.
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- mikehalloran
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Re: SSD On Boot Drive
That can happen due to connection, driver and clocking issues.KenNickels wrote:My 2012 Mac Pro will arrive Monday and when it's up and running I'll see how it fares compared to the 2008 model. Off the topic of SSD's for a moment to ask a general performance question. Has anyone ever found that problems with audio rendering, i.e., clicks, dropouts and other weird stuff were due to the audio interface itself?
DP 11.31; 828mkII FW, micro lite, M4, MTP/AV USB Firmware 2.0.1
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2023 Mac Studio M2 8TB, 192GB RAM, OS Sonoma 14.4.1, USB4 8TB external, M-Audio AIR 192|14, Mackie ProFxv3 6/10/12; 2012 MBPs Catalina, Mojave
IK-NI-Izotope-PSP-Garritan-Antares, LogicPro X, Finale 27.4, Dorico 5.2, Notion 6, Overture 5, TwistedWave, DSP-Q 5, SmartScore64 Pro, Toast 20 Pro