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  • Performance SSD storage gone wild!

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    F

    http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/solid-state-drives/pci-express/z-drive-r2/ocz-z-drive-r2-p88-pci-express-ssd.html

    Just wanted you to be aware of this product line of pretty much super fast SSD pci-e drives.

    The non R2 256GB edition goes for around $1000. Haven't bother checking out the other prices...! 

    The top models have quite impressive specifications

    • Read: Up to 1.4GB/s
    • Write: Up to 1.4GB/s
    • Sustained Write: Up to 950 MB/s
    Nice :)
    Fredrik
  • Cyril BlancC
    Cyril BlancC

    Did you try it with VSL ?

    I am very interested because my orchestral template take ages to load

    I did some test with a Raid 0, it did improve the load a little bit, the problem is that VSL have to do a lot of calculation during loading to decompress and to decode the samples

    I have suggest to VSL when you load a Mframe  to load VIFrames in separate sub process simultaneously ! no answer

    Best

    Cyril

    MacBook Pro M3 MAX 128 GB 8TB - 2 x 48" screen --- Logic Pro --- Mir Pro 3D --- Most of the VI libs, a few Synch... libs --- Quite a few Kontakt libs --- CS80 fanatic
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    F

    Hi, Cyril

    No, I have not tried it. I just received a hardware raid controller. Using 4x7200 disks in 0+1 for both a performance boost in general, but mostly for redundancy.

    However, I am thinking of getting one of the "low end" models which are tagged around $900. 256GB should be enough for OSX + VISe.

    Having 600MB sequential should be more than enough.

    As far as I know the buffer size used to load VSL are simply too small. I'd love for this to be changed.
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    P
    Hey there Fred and Cyril, I've just received my VSL Super Bundle and will be installing it onto a Drobo S with 5 x Western Digital 300Gig, 10,000RPM Velociraptors in a couple of days. I did toy with the idea of an Intel SSD set up, but the costs are a bit too prohibitive at the moment (I'd have had to have laid out more than double the money for a similar amount of storage). I am very interested, however in what the performance gains are with SSDs over SATA HDs with large libraries. My guess is that access time is the key factor in overall performance, as it's not like we are working with massive files (hundreds of megabytes), rather hundreds of files of moderate sizes. Still, as I'm new to VSL my logic is that even though I've now got a massive library at my disposal I'll probably not be maxing it out for some time. Any suggestions on how we could record/monitor our hard drive performance to try to make more sense of what gains we'd see with an upgrade? This article (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/windows-ssd-performance,2518-9.html) says quite a lot about the issue... Paul
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    Hey There. An addition to my post yesterday. I have discovered that the Drobo can actually result in Hard Drives performing worse inside the thing than outside! So I'm really glad I spend a few hours late last night conversing with a techie friend on the subject. I'll post back once I have really outlined a good solution.
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    L

    Anyone have an opinion of what performance would be like, say with the entire VSL Symphonic Cube on a single card?
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    L

    Also, with a card like this, I would hope that a person would not have to worry about keeping a large chunk of it free (so as not to create performance issues). Any opinion on that?