Just setup new 4TB External Drive. Interesting results
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2023 12:27 pm
So my 2TB Western Digital Blue NVMe drive that I use for sample libraries was getting full. I was using it in this enclosure BTW:
https://a.co/d/gY1bEaS
I was getting really good performance out of it as you can see here:
But it I was running out of room so I ordered another of the same enclosures and purchased a 4TB Samsung 990 Pro NVMe drive. This one here: https://a.co/d/3lrL8mt
I installed it in the enclosure and attached to my Mac Studio and formatted it and then named it the same as my sample library drive and copied contents over to it (using CCC). I unmounted old sample library volume, launched Kontakt and various VIs... and all is good!! I now have more free space for more sample libraries. My 2TB NVMe is now going to be dedicated to Final Cut Pro projects.
There is one interesting result though. Read speeds are great on the Samsung, but curiously write speeds are a bit slower. I don't know if that's a "thing" with the 4TB versus 2TB size or what? However, it's write speed and these drive is going to be used for *reading* sample libraries, so it hardly matters as the only time it will be doing any appreciable *writing* is when I might purchase a new library and need to copy it to the drive.
Oh... I will add that the *reads* are a little over 200MB/s faster, and maybe I'm imagining it, but it felt faster on loading some Kontakt instruments.
Here are the test results for the 4TB Samsung 990 Pro:
https://a.co/d/gY1bEaS
I was getting really good performance out of it as you can see here:
But it I was running out of room so I ordered another of the same enclosures and purchased a 4TB Samsung 990 Pro NVMe drive. This one here: https://a.co/d/3lrL8mt
I installed it in the enclosure and attached to my Mac Studio and formatted it and then named it the same as my sample library drive and copied contents over to it (using CCC). I unmounted old sample library volume, launched Kontakt and various VIs... and all is good!! I now have more free space for more sample libraries. My 2TB NVMe is now going to be dedicated to Final Cut Pro projects.
There is one interesting result though. Read speeds are great on the Samsung, but curiously write speeds are a bit slower. I don't know if that's a "thing" with the 4TB versus 2TB size or what? However, it's write speed and these drive is going to be used for *reading* sample libraries, so it hardly matters as the only time it will be doing any appreciable *writing* is when I might purchase a new library and need to copy it to the drive.
Oh... I will add that the *reads* are a little over 200MB/s faster, and maybe I'm imagining it, but it felt faster on loading some Kontakt instruments.
Here are the test results for the 4TB Samsung 990 Pro: