I recently (a few months back) bought a new PC from XI Machines loaded up with Angelbird SSD's and just want to put a short review up here for anyone wondering about either of these companies - even though they're both already recommended by VSL. Basically don't think about it. I have waited and worked with this machine for several months now intensely before saying anything, but I'm happy to confirm that everything is absolutely FLAWLESS. I'll do a review of XI Machines in a seperate post later when I have time as that's more detailed, but as for the Angelbird SSD's the good news is the review is very simple! These are beautifully made devices, extremely cool (mine are all internal of course) - extremely fast, not a hitch. I got the master class of drives, but after using these for a while now - and successfully employing VSL's suggestion of lowering the load buffer in VI Pro to save RAM - I am happy to confirm that in my experience thus far they are 100% living up to their hype and reputation, and frankly if I didn't have the budget I would go with confidence with any of their cheaper models also. I got them for all my system drives - Windows drive, an audio drive for projects, and three larger library drives (3X 480Gb) and this thing is awesome. If you're wondering about going for it - seriously: wonder no more!! I wish there was more I could say about them but honestly they just work, and they're so simple - what more is there to say. Very fast, very cool. Just wanted to pass that on and thanks to VSL for recommending them.

 I also bought a top-end pc from XI_Machines which was configured with AngelBird SSDs.  I have to say that the pc is an absolute monster and together with the SSDs provides incredible performance. On the plus side I found both companies to be hugely supportive in getting the equipment working exactly right. The SSDs originally supplied by Angelird were prone to heat damage (and beware there is no rebate for failure after they had been working), however they did substantially discount the replacements which are now better protected. The whole set up does come to a considerable amount of money but Henry Royce (of Rolls Royce) once coined the saying "the quality remains long after the price is forgotten". If you want speed and quality - they just are!

Best,

Roy

hehe I just logged in to reply to the other message and you have a similar one here - I am pretty flat out, and I'm also not interested in running any other software on this system than what is there for music. If I get a chance though I'll give it a go.

Are you scared of the results !

Very impressive !

a Raid 0 of ssd or HD for the VSL lib is not a big problem, you just need to backup your lib on a removable HD

You will not "damage" your raid 0 as it is only used in reading mode

Using a Raid 0 for audio is not a good idea, you should use a Raid 5 or a raid ??