I'm about to build a new PC slave exclusively for MIR Pro as a slave to my Mac Digital Performer DAW. I'm just a little bit confused about the best way to go these days and am leaning towards using SSDs, which I've never used before. Here's what I'm thinking on the basic specs now:
2 Xeon 5630s (2.53gHz)
12GB RAM
2 240GB SSDs, which would handle most of my VSL samples, plus one HDD for overflow and backups.
This brings up one of my questions - with SSDs, do we still follow the same rules about separate drives? Could Windows, MIR Pro, and some samples all be on the same SSD?
I'm also wondering about CPU speed. My current choice is of course largely based on budget, but if I use mid to large setups (my currently open project has about 12GB of samples in RAM, using power pan on every channel and 4 VSL convolution reverbs, and I envision switching to everything using MIR Pro), will I regret not spending the extra $400 or so on the next step up to Xeon 5640s, or even further to 12 cores? If anyone at VSL or anybody with more experience has any doubts about what I have above, I'd love to hear it! Thanks!