My slave computer running my VSL libraries is a Mac Mini with 16GB of RAM.  I am planning to put an internal SSD drive in it, maybe a Crucial M550 512GB to start with.  I have read that I can expect to load maybe 10 times as many samples into my template as with the regular external hard drive which I am using now.  What settings do I need to adjust to make this happen once the drive is installed?  Is it just the buffer size that needs adjusting or will it just automatically allow me to load more samples/patches?  Apologies if this has been answered before but I'm hoping that spending $250 or so on an internal SSD will significantly increase the number of instances and instruments that I can have loaded at any one time.

Thank you,  Andy

Thank you Cyril,

My Mac Mini is a late 2012 model and from what I can gather it does have a Sata III interface.  (Nowhere can I seem to find a definitive answer to this however, not even in the Apple specs. The concensus seems to agree that it will be Sata III)  I wonder if anyone has a preference between the Crucial MX100 or an M550 SSD?  They claim the M550 is even faster tham the MX100 but the read and write speeds are the same.  Can't wait to experience the increase in performance now that SSD's are becoming more affordable.

I will indeed experiment with the preload sizes in the directory manager once I'm up and running.

Best,   Andy