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  • HDD 7200 RPM For applications ok?

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    Hi, are there performance issues with running Sibelius or Cubase/any applications from a mechanical 7200 RPM drive, even with having a separate slave/server computer running VEP & samples?

    Thinking of making my 27 inch iMac the master (i5-8500; 32GB RAM) but running Windows in Boot Camp as I now prefer Windows and use that on my other machines. However, it's got a Fusion Drive, which means that Apple have built-in their OS to run off the tiny SDD portion and lumps Windows on the slow mechanical based HDD. That HDD runs at just 170 mb/s.

    My server/slave machine is self-built: i9-9900K; 64GB RAM; SDD (SATA) 550 mb/s (although I will upgrade that to a NVme 3000 mb/s at some point). Running VE Pro 7; MIR Pro; mainly Synchron-ized Special Editions.
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    Quick update: I tried this today and had no issues with using the Boot Camp iMac as the master, runing Sibelius on it's 7200RPM HDD. Playing back around 20-25 instruments in tutti passages with latency of around 7ms was certainly ok for me! :) CPU usage was low as well as RAM percentage. Will post more details at some point. VE Pro 7 server system hitting around CPU 40-60% and RAM pretty low usage too around those thickly orchestrated bars.

    [EDIT] I thought I should add that I am running each instrument with compressors, EQ and MIR Pro, so that must add to the workload of the systems too. Load times of Sibelius is very quick despite the 7200 HDD. I will upgrade it to SSD in the future but it doesn't seem worth the hassle at the moment.